Word: limped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mass. From other farms in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine they are believed to have stolen not less than $100,000 worth of pelts-slipping into the pens by night with flashlights, clubbing the wide-eyed little animals where they crouched against the side wire, lugging the limp carcasses away in sacks to skin them in the woods, peddling the pelts at half price (about $250 instead of $500, prime) to uninquisitive Manhattan jobbers...
...Royal Gallery, in Berlin, described the painting in the following terms: "The subject of the picture is about sixteen. He is standing turned to the left and looking at the spectator, wearing a greenish black cloak, a cap of the same colour with a yellow band, and a limp pleated collar. His hair falls in curls over his shoulders, the full light coming almost from the front with a brown background, fairly light in tone...
...Limping visibly, Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes emerged from one of the many sessions at St. James's palace, answered correspondents who had rudely asked: "What's the matter with you? Why the limp...
...story being operatically artificial, Director Lionel Barrymore was entitled to use scenery both beautiful and absurd. But he need not have made the tale of love and hate so limp. Passion never touches the audience, which is delighted whenever Comedians Laurel & Hardy and buttocks of the horses in their care intervene to provide raucous merriment. By the success of this humor Director Barrymore reveals his failure in the main chance. And Tibbett can never be called the singing Douglas Fairbanks until his way with both horses and women is at least the equal of his attendant clowns...
Only Argentina has a President like Hipólito Irigoyen. In Buenos Aires last week six policemen pumped bullets into the limp body of an Italian assassin, called world attention to Argentina's President...