Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anything else I ever did! They think I can't do it!" The evening before the National Committee met, the New Yorkers had dinner at the Shoreham Hotel. Swope sat with Charles Michelson, Charles S. Hand and John J. Leary, three of the World's ablest correspondents, at his elbow. Every few minutes he would turn to one or another of these correspondents : "Hand?call up New Hampshire!?[the New Hampshire National Committeemen]. Find out how they are going to vote!" A few minutes later the correspondent would come back, often with an unfavorable report. Swope was active among...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE?A play of the American Revolution by George Bernard Shaw. For two acts he writes as though George M. Cohan were at his very elbow. Then he settles down to satire, and laughter supplants the thunder of the melodrummer...
James K. Hackett, actor: " Golfing at Fontainebleau, I completely missed a ball, spun around several times, fell heavily on my right side, and broke my arm in two places above the elbow...
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired: "In a speech at Oakland, Cal., I said: ' I could have had my arms decorated with gold lace up to my elbow if I had stuck by Daniels' (ex-Secretary of the Navy's) falsehood that the Navy (in 1917) was fully equipped and ready to fight...
...compress into uniformity. It is ambitious; it does not meet the plea for greater economy. But unlike the other programs, it considers the child. In the tender years when the nature of the child is expanding, when its vivid imagination is struggling for expression, the curriculum must give it elbow-room instead of cramping and stunting it within the bounds of the three R's. And certainly, as one educator says, when the American people spend twenty two billions of dollars yearly on luxuries, they should be willing to spend more than a single billion a year in educating...