Word: lick
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...victor's sister Florence, aged 16, and young brother Sylvan, were prevailed upon by the photographer of a Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet, to pose, in bellicose attitude, Florence wearing boxing gloves. Young Silverman's father said: "Somebody had to lick the President's son, I guess. I'm pleased to have the honor to be the father of the boy who did it,, but other boys in the United States could do the same." A promoter in Manhattan offered young Silverman $5,000 for three matches in Manhattan. Two days later, one William Hughes of Waterbury, Conn., drubbed Silverman...
Accordingly, President Doumergue called upon M. Herriot to lick his dog and its tail into shape and form a cabinet. For the third time last week the tail, wagged by M. Blum, wagged on. He would listen to nothing but supremacy for his Unified Socialists. Thus faced with flat insubordination in the cartel, M. Herriot grew furious. After informing President Doumergue that he could not form a cabinet, he rushed to a caucus of his still loyal adherents and had a motion passed approving his refusal to form a cabinet on Blum's terms. This action was widely interpreted...
Fenway "lrish Lick", with Thomas Meighan...
...Once on the outskirts of a town I came upon a dead woman. By her side sat her husband, who apparently was shortly to follow her. He held a baby - their baby-whimpering, naked, starved and cold. He also was crying. And he began to lick his child all over. I feared canabalism, but, no, he was simply trying to keep it warm...
...cafes, in the smoky corners of third-string night clubs, till their keys are yellow, and their tone is as hard as peroxided hair. Gershwin's fingers found a curious music in them. He made it hump along with a twang and a shuffle, hunch its. shoulders and lick its lips. Diners applauded. "What's the name of that tune, honey?" asked a lady of Gershwin one night...