Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...page but a spy. Soldiers are looking for him. When they enter he hides; the Princess is in process of lying him out of it but he surrenders himself. The King, a not really heavy parent, regretfully prepares to do his duty, when the page in time's nick disproves his spydom, proves himself a king...
...Nick, the 800-lb. blue gnu in Detroit's zoological park, is a bad actor. He has killed one of his mates, two of their calves. Last week Big Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus...
...died of his wounds. He was the second zookeeper killed at work this month. Last fortnight, Sunshine, the Russian brown bear in Cleveland's zoo, slew Keeper Thomas Earl (TIME, July 18). For his crime. Sunshine was shot to death. Because blue gnus are rare & costly, murderous Big Nick was not killed, but sentenced to isolation for life...
...play in his two ultrasocialite comedies, Paris Bound and Holiday, was chosen the Barrys' friend Hope Williams, a smart young woman who had never set foot on the professional boards before. And his good friend Donald Ogden Stewart acted the funniest role Playwright Barry has created to date: Nick, the easy-going gentleman in Holiday who extemporized on the invention of the bottle...
...actors, for actors are autocrats and the great families of the stage are the last dynasties that exercise the divine rights. So Miss Dane promptly moved the time up a century or so and changed the name of her heroes to Broome, for Plantagenet was first given as a nick-name to Geoffrey of Anjou because he always were a spring of broom...