Word: handed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line of grouse butts-little crescent shaped turf bunkers facing the grouse coverts. Three-quarters of a mile away the beaters started moving toward them, a line of schoolboys and gillies waving flags, beating dishpans. Crouched in the bottom of each butt was a nimble-fingered loader, ready to hand each "gun" his second weapon. Began the fastest most difficult wing shooting in the world. Flying 50 miles an hour, like rocketing black bullets, grouse zoomed straight over the butts. Hundreds of birds fell, hundreds more escaped to fly again another...
...artist' may be defined as one who performs a 'specialty,' such as a song, a dance, or a comic number. On the other hand an 'entertainer' is one who sits with guests at a table assisting in the buying of drinks. You will view the girls' accomplishments and decide which are 'entertainers' and which 'artists...
...Author. How much academic education does it take to be a writer earning respectable money? Charles Fulton Oursler, now 36, finished all schooling with seventh grade grammar, in Baltimore. Thereafter he studied French literature, sleight-of-hand, farm implements, music. He earned money by the last three. Real success came with his play, The Spider, a Broadway smash in 1927, now playing in Budapest and Paris. His somewhat spiritualized view of Adah Menken is partly explained by his membership in the American Society for Psychic Research...
...want something Gothic," he declared. "The time has gone by when the Church should be content with a weak imitation of medieval architecture. Our own age is worthy of interpretation right now and there could be no finer place than a great seaport like Liverpool. . . . On the other hand, we want nothing 'Epsteinish...
...Significance. Like the Booth Tarkington of Penrod, Arthur Thiess is sensitive to the dreams and growth of boys and girls. Unlike the U. S. author, Frank Thiess probes deeply, uncovers with tender hand, like a rose-lover, their straining growth...