Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advice of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Upset by the ensuing publicity when Hudson threatened to sue the U. S. L. T. A. for alienation of affections, Kovacs was no great shakes in his first tour of the big-time circuit. Last summer, bothered by a tennis elbow, he did not compete in the important Eastern tournaments, but in the late-season Pacific Coast championship he outplayed Australia's top-ranking Adrian Quist and Yugoslavia's top-ranking Franjo Puncec before bowing to Bobby Riggs in the final...
...Patterson at 69 still goes to his office each morning at 9:30. At noon he usually wanders over to the Adventurers' Club (his qualifications for membership: 36 summers spent fishing in Canadian woods) to idle away the afternoons swapping yarns with a drink at his elbow. Mild-mannered, spry, Pat chews an unlighted cigar while he talks in a voice so low that it frequently dies away to a mumble...
...none of this feeling from a symphony like the Brahms First. Here there is no free flow in the melodic line, but the most clogged turgidity. To my mind, at least, there is the effect of a good deal of patient labor behind it all, a solid dose of elbow-grease and midnight-oil, with little to back it up. Everything gives the impression of being too carefully and consciously calculated. Moreover, the orchestration is muddy and inflated. There are those, and I am one of them, who dislike Tchaikowski's excessively ballet type of orchestration, his pizzicato and arpeggio...
...sufficiently recovered and get my old soupbone warmed up," Bowie said, "I ought to be able to elbow my way through the first brace of cadenzas. "I've got speed to burn, but no control...
...office. Present Mayor Hugh ("Hercules") Tripp runs the Corner Drug Store, suggests that Rochester would make a fine mountain resort if Ickes will build a mountain. Mayor Hercules wrote President Roosevelt, asking a PWA grant to rebuild Rochester's abandoned depot. Last week he nursed a skinned elbow from reaching deep into his mailbox each morning for Roosevelt's answer. "So far I've found nothing in the box but a new bird's nest," said Tripp. "I say . . . it's an honor to be ignored by the President...