Word: padding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yacht Club has been a hotbed of anti-Machado intrigue ever since a member of Dictator Machado's Cabinet was snubbed by a Yacht Club member last December and President Gerardo Machado, El Gallo ("The Rooster"), pad locked the clubhouse in retaliation. Fort night ago Julio Cadena's yacht Coral slipped away from the yacht club pier with Cuba's onetime President, bearded Mario Garcia Menocal on board, also Colonel Carlos Mendieta and a shipload of other insurgents. Their plan was to go down the coast, land, take charge of revo lutionary forces that had already taken...
...Brooklyn toreador, that he could not hold a bullfight in New Jersey. Toreador Franklin had planned one for next week. He wanted to show U. S. citizens how he did it in Spain. He promised that it would be a gentle fight. He planned to use a rubber sword, pad the bull's horns. He said he would wave his cape and let the bull run at him. But not unless it was absolutely necessary would the bull be harmed...
...duelists stand a sabre's length apart, stripped to the buff. At the side of each is a second. Doctors and corporation officials are present; fellow members sit about drinking beer and watching the "fun." About the middle of each duelist is fastened a protective pad, about each throat a thick scarf to prevent severance of the jugular vein. Over the eyes are placed wire mesh goggles; a steel snout protects the nose. The duelists' prime targets are one another's cheeks and forehead...
...answer to "Where Do Famous Authors Do Their Writing?" has been made by responses varying from "Under an apple tree" to "On a pad hung over the kitchen sink." Cosmo Bamilton, whose new novel. "The Pleasure House," has just been published by Putnam's, admits bravely to a large fiat in a fine old Georgian house in "Pleadilly, London...
...Episcopalians is an elderly British peer, courtly in manner, somewhat beefy, and, in New York, vaguely Jewish. The God of the Mormons shaves his upper lip, and believes in large families and a protective tariff. The God of the Methodists is an agent pro-vacateur, forever fingering his pad of blank warrants. The God of the Baptists is amphibious, and, in some of his aspects, almost identical with the Neptune of the Greeks...