Word: hug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jesus, put your arms around New York. Hug her to death, Lord. . . . Is New York going to Heaven? Is she going to pray? To be sober? True? Virtuous...
...across. They wax & wane in cycles which average 11.2 years, although the last two cycles covered hardly more than ten years each. As a cycle progresses the sunspot zones migrate from 30° north and south latitude to 16° in mid-cycle; the last survivors hug the equator. What interests laymen most about sunspots is their influence on earth and earthlings' welfare. Scientists scout some notions on this subject as silly superstitions, debate others, accept a few as well substantiated. They agree that during high sunspot activity...
...fight, forced dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, electrocution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for instigating the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Halley's Comet, Ford jokes. Suffragettes Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Evangelist Billy Sunday, the two-step, grizzly bear, bunny hug. Actress Lillian Russell, erection of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel, nude "September Morn." dawn of psychoanalysis in the U. S., Politician "Uncle Joe" Cannon...
Darting forward as soon as the Imperial Chamberlain stepped sedately back, excited War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki wrung Conqueror Honjo's hand, then clasped him in a "half-hug," exceedingly rare among decorous Japanese...
Last week's crowd caught its first glimpse of "Pop" Cleveland greeting each woman pilot in the Cord Cup Race with an enormous hug & kiss. Fifty-nine planes had set out from Washington and Los Angeles a week earlier, their paths converging at Bartlesville, Okla. into a home stretch to Cleveland. As it was scored by lap-points, everyone knew when the racers reached Cincinnati that Roy Hunt of Oklahoma would win in his slow Great Lakes Trainer...