Word: humps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shake of a sheep's tail Boss Curry Hipped out the name of his man, telephoned him to hump himself to the Garden to receive the nomination...
President Hoover was reluctant to accept their advice and change his tactics. He hates campaigning and crowds. Besides, he thinks it would be undignified to get out and hump himself for office like any ordinary politician. Deaf to suggestions for an extended campaign the President finally consented to make three October speeches ,two in the Midwest. one in the East. Beyond that he would not go, even for another four years in the White House...
...sing Vial's praises in a lyric strain. I regret him. ... I shall have no reason to magnify him until I begin to regret him less. He will come down-when my memory shall have achieved its capricious work which often deprives a monster of his hump or his horns, effaces a mountain, respects a straw ... he will come down and take his place deep within me, where love, that superficial spray, does not always manage to penetrate...
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...Chicago, one Walter Lang was arrested because he stood so long watching a roost of pigeons belonging to a local fancier. He pleaded: "I'm just a hunchback. I never did anything wrong." Turning to show his hump, he dislodged one of the fancier's pigeons concealed under his coat. Walter Lang went to jail for 30 days...