Word: hoisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Charlie Whiteside was very nearly hoist by his own petard yesterday when fire broke out on the launch "Frank Thompson" opposite the Watertown Arsenal. Gasoline in the bilge was ignited by a backfire, and in seconds only the crew was scrambling over the stone wall on the Cambridge side loudly cheered by the watching jolly boaters...
...show was a 2,000 Ib. female figure in moulded concrete known as The Mountain (see cut). Seven men and a three-ton truck worked from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. to get it to the museum. Winches, ropes, pulleys and masses of wadding were used to hoist it from the basement of the Ettl Studios to the street level. Sculptor Lachaise was too nervous to watch but telephoned every ten minutes for a report on progress. Standing on the sidewalk before the museum he screamed with dismay when three fire engines bore down on truck and Mountain...
...without working, but the peon has to work while he starves." In expropriating land from private estates the Government hands the irate landlord bonds proportionate to the taxes he actually paid. Since most landlords connived with the tax-gatherers and paid less than they should, they are now neatly hoist by their own tax-dodging...
...Press. Feeling an urge to play on Mr. Roosevelt's side, President Lewis Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. and Pickler Howard Heinz hastened to Washington, there to talk with the President and conservative New Dealers. Messrs. Heinz & Brown soon gathered that, if private enterprise could hoist the business curve a notch or two in the next 60 days, there was reasonable hope of keeping the Administration a little to the Right of Centre. With some tangible evidence of Recovery in his hands, the President could reasonably handle the spenders, bonuseers and inflationists of the next Congress. And very definitely...
...Magic Circle Society of Magicians in London for successful performance of the trick. Next afternoon he stepped onto the stage again. Excited, he forgot to have the lights dimmed, began to mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered to see an arm left oozing on the stage after the whole boy had reappeared. Magician Heger announced that he would...