Word: grating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adequately supplies for a nation of stockholders. Furs, fine fabrics, fair women, the light and shadow of autumn, the iridescent color minglings of eighty seated thousands form the tableau at New Haven. It appears new and of certain splendor. Yet the first roar that greets the raising of the grate for the two opposing teams dispels the note novelty. Echoed into mind are the arenas of Tiberius, the lists of Provence...
...want you to know," wrote Joe Bado, Bradley, Ohio, to Promoter Tex Rickard last week, "that I am a man with both artificial legs. I think the public would think it was grate to see a man with two artificial legs in the ring with Tunney. ... I am not afraid to fight...
...bank presidents, Government officials and great lawyers, will be glad to learn that he is to retain his rooms in Hollis Hall which they knew so well in their undergraduate days. There they will be sure to find him sitting, as usual, by the coal grate in his book-lined room to welcome them, ever interested, sympathetic and inspiriting...
...their judgment may be an old man, his apogee undoubtedly passed. But the creations of Richard Strauss, are never treated casually, for his work is intensely personal and his personality is provoking. Looking upon the philosophical brow, dreamy eyes, sensitive lips, effeminate chin, one marvels how this musician can grate so on the world. There is his mercenariness. Once he invited notables from all parts of Europe to a supper given after the premiere of his ballet La Legende de Joseph, then served upon each guest a bill for his share of the food. There is his snobbish insincerity...
...Arthur R. Gould of Maine, leather-faced Yankee of 69, sat before a grate fire in a committee room last week and sought to defend himself against charges of bribery, which he is said to have committed many years ago. An investigating committee, headed by Senator Walsh of Montana, prodded him with questions. Here is the story that Senator Gould told them. In 1912 he and four partners were building a railroad in New Brunswick, Canada?it was "the best railroad they ever had up there." A man named Flemming came to him and said...