Word: limb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rope was tied around the top of the contraption, the other thrown over the limb of an elm and seized by the workers. They then proceeded to ease the machinery into the hole, inch by inch, foot by foot, fighting it all the way with audible grunts and groans...
...rush onto French statute books a law modeled on the British law of libel, strictest in the world. "Roger Salengro would not have asked any other vengeance!" explained M. Blum, who seemed to think that unless he took such "vengeance" upon French newspaper proprietors the mob might rend them limb from limb. At latest reports the entire metallurgical industry of Lille was paralyzed by a stayin strike vaguely linked with Salengro, Socialism & Spain...
Cinemaddicts with good memories of MGM's two previous Tarzan pictures, though they may feel that they have seen Tarzan Escapes before, will find it richly entertaining. Good shots: Tarzan's elephant-power elevator; Cheetah laughing; the Ganelonis ingeniously tearing a captive limb from limb...
Definitely feeble nowadays, Pope Pius XI has lately been variously described as suffering from dropsy, uremia, Bright's disease, asthma, poor metabolism, heaviness of limb. Last week a prelate in private audience with the Holy Father made reference to newspaper accounts of his health. As put into English by a United Pressman in Rome, the Pope's sporting reply...
...about the colony of bankrupt Midwest farmers who with great fanfare were sent by the New Deal last year to get a new start in Southern Alaska's Matanuska Valley (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.). On a set devised by Donald Oenslager which has a huge, improbable limb of some coniferous tree hanging from the proscenium, hopeful men, women & children arrive singing, yapping, gossiping, making acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down...