Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shell hit the top of the hill. A dark lump flew up with the smoke and blasted dust and went higher and fell in a gentle arc. A man screamed: "Help! help! help! help...
Sculpture Plus Chemistry. When he was a boy on a Kentucky farm, Dawn used to take a cold chisel, hammer and spoon over to the creek bank and chop faces in soft sandstone. Many years later, after time spent as a sailor, dishwasher and cowhand-always with a lump of sculptor's clay in his pocket - a Hollywood studio hired him to be an Indian brave...
...what surprised youngish musicians was the fact that beauteous Lillian Russell was also obviously a woman of voice. She took her high notes with operatic aplomb, turned her phrases with the delicacy of a diva. There was even a hint in the recording of the lump in Lillian's throat which she frequently got when she sang this particular song. That catch in the throat had a history...
...years ago, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), sick of tax-hungry cities which fattened on the intangible property tax,, moved its legal residence to Flemington, the county seat where the Hauptmann trial was held. On personal property of $45,000,000, Standard paid a tax of $301,500. This lump sent Flemington's tax rate of $3.91 per $100 parachuting to 67?. Since then, 135 equally tax-conscious corporations have followed Standard's trail, adding a total of $200,000,000 to Flemington's intangible tax rolls...
...right, so I'm a ninny ... I think I have never been so moved... I didn't say anything then. I couldn't explain it to them. Even if I could, it would have embarrassed them, anyway I had a lump in my throat. They took me home. We talked, we laughed...