Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rehearsal for the bout, love-smitten Joe, teaching Sadie a hammer lock, suddenly pressed his lips to hers, refused to go on with the match. Manager Ed was desperate till Noah (Daniel Boone Savage), Sadie's discarded hillbilly swain, started taking pot shots at the troupe with a squirrel gun. Bearded Noah leaped at a chance to crush Joe's bones in public, winner take Sadie. Ed sent Joe in to lose, reversed his instructions halfway through the match when Madison Square Garden wired an offer. But when the troupe left, Loser Noah was Garden-bound, Winner...
...feudal chiefs in what was formerly German Tanganyika. The Pygmies sing repetitious melodies in the manner of change-ringers, each one hooting his single note in turn. The Babira Negroes of the Ituri Forest punctuate the high-pitched gargling of their soloist with aggressive whoops. The Watusi Drummers hammer an intense counterpoint of rhythms more complicated than Gene Krupa's randiest rataplan...
...Stalin above eulogistic articles. Speeding from Madrid last week an official Spanish Leftist delegation arrived in Moscow bearing gifts and greetings. Madrid's main thoroughfare for a distance of a mile was decked with crossed flags: the red, yellow and purple tricolor of Leftist Spain and the hammer & sickle banner of Communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular. Moscow marchers across...
Square carried floats in honor of Leftist Spain, and every important building in Madrid displayed the red, five-pointed star of Communism with the hammer & sickle or a portrait of Our Sun at its centre. Madrid's mayor renamed part of the famed Gran Via as the "Avenue of the Soviet Union" and from Barcelona Leftist War Minister Indalecio Prieto cabled "Congratulations to the Red Army...
...host left his room shortly thereafter and was not a little startled to see one of them holding open the incinerator while another was peering down it. He enthusiastically ran back, collected a hammer and chisel and a little bag, and returned to find them leaving. "We just wanted to see how it worked," they said...