Word: jabbed
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...table is never empty anymore. And as Bentley sits there, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, he pauses every now and then between bites to think of that evening at Harkness Common. For a moment, a smile flits across his face as he savours the memory. But then, with an angry jab at a string bean, Bentley remembers the dollar...
...more serious weakness is that what little story there is should additionally-in a play that makes mincemeat of clichés-use so many plot cliches itself. Where the wit is so true and the satire so topical, it seems a pity that such sharp pins should jab, in the end, little more than a pincushion...
...Central got a chance to jab again when Young nominated seven men who, he said, would be on the board if he captures control. He airily added that he wanted a Vanderbilt on the board because "I can't imagine a New York Central board without at least one Vanderbilt ... to flavor it." William H. Vanderbilt and his cousin, Harold S. Vanderbilt, both members of the Central board, turned Young down cold. Alfred Vanderbilt, William's half brother, followed suit. Added Harold: "I have no doubts about Mr. Young's ability as a stock manipulator, but running...
...Cagney is the cocky bantam hoodlum, swaggering and posturing, with words dropping from the side of his mouth in chunks and gushes. His favorite stance is with one hand grasping a terrified speak-easy proprietor by the shirt front while two fingers of the other hand are poised to jab out stricken eyes. Robinson, less slavish to the physical, just points his cigar and says "Nyah," fixing opponents with crepe-swathed stares. Then he sends enormous wreaths to their funerals...
...nurses, medical personnel from two Air Force fields, and housewives recruited by the Parent-Teacher Association, set up 18 inoculation stations in schools. From morning to night, for four days, droves of children were run through an assembly-line routine: pants down, an alcohol swab on the buttock, the jab of a needle, and then a lollipop to shut their mouths. Total shots...