Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...print a letter like A. A. Marshall's of Toronto? . . . It has my blood boiling. So he "knows America very well"? And he's "damned if Clement Attlee's speech didn't hit the nail on the head . . ." I think Mr. Marshall is an-ignoramus . . . and I hope that his sentiments are not shared by most Canadians...
When the first card arrived, wrote Dr. Crane, he decided to take it to the children's tuberculosis ward of his mission hospital. There, he strung the cutouts from a nail driven into one of the roughhewn beams of the wall. The decoration "was an instantaneous success," he reported. "The patients, all of them abandoned orphans and most of them under two years of age, were fascinated with the new toy as the nurses dangled it over the beds and cribs that fill the wood-floored ward . . . Now, with enough cards to string from one end of the room...
Between long bouts of powder-room chitchat. The Echoing Grove commendably attempts to dig below the surface of life, but its well-manicured prose cuts into reality about as deeply as a nail file into California redwood...
...know the United States very well, and after reading Clement Attlee's speech in full, I'm damned if he didn't hit the nail right smack on the head...
Hothead. In Leeds, England, Edna Illingworth got a divorce after testifying that her husband Richard 1) tied her up in the cellar, 2) bound her hands to a nail above her head, and 3) doused her with a bucketful of water "to cool...