Word: padded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...receiving end of the twirler's efforts have been catchers Dave Hodgson and Bill Hamlen. Hodgson has been active since the beginning of practice, but Hamlen was a latecomer, and in the last two weeks has been pressing the Milton Academy star for the mask and pad...
...shibboleth of classic neutrality," Señor Ruiz Guiñazú wiped his face with his handkerchief. When the Under Secretary concluded with a ringing declaration that democratic ideals "will yet triumph," Señor Ruiz Guiñazú fanned himself, being careful to use a scratch pad and not a copy (translated into Spanish) of Mr. Welles's speech...
Peverley's collection, which will be on display for about ten days, includes a German parachute, a blood-stained gunner's pad, two land mines, and several bombs, including an incendiary. One of the bombs has a "howler" attachment, which causes the bomb to "scream" when it falls...
...excretion was often performed in public" and "kings and princesses . . . made conversation while seated on the chaise percée," the news of Cardinal Richelieu's piles had penetrated into every corner of the kingdom of France. To rally the Cardinal during his hemorrhoidal depressions, there used to pad into his room one of the most mysterious, potent and least known of Europe's great power politicians. He was His Grey Eminence, the barefoot Capuchin friar. Father Joseph-for some 20 years Richelieu's second brain...
...once in a blue moon does any large publishing firm pad its circulation figures-the basis on which its advertising is sold-but last week it became evident that one of the largest had done so. The publisher was MacFadden Publications, Inc. (True Story, Physical Culture, Liberty, True Romances and seven others) of which 73-year-old Bernarr MacFadden relinquished control three months ago. The story became known when the new management began cleaning house...