Word: palling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present acts of abuse at rodeos will later pall, and more (there are lots of them) vicious displays will have to be introduced. Even after the laudable failure of a gang of American rodeoists in England last summer, the nation was so incensed that legislation was promptly enacted to prevent further invasions of shows that depended on cruelty and abuse...
...Cold weather, however, soon drives them indoors. . . . The young husband tires of loafing, love-making begins to pall, love begins to seem to both of them not quite 'enough.' ... So he takes a job in the Capitals and proudly brings home MONEY, receives her grateful smiles and feels elated. She immediately goes shopping. Presently she calls for 'a home' and soon other wants appear. . . . They throw their energies into the Capitals...
...street once more, he hailed a taxicab, rolled down Pall Mall, past the sooty pile of St. James's Palace. The Major rapped on the window...
...President Roosevelt been two hours late he would not have delayed the ceremonies. Off Staten Island fog closed in. The Indianapolis dropped anchor, whistled for a wind to blow the dank pall away. Ultimately the whistling had its effect. After noon the four-starred cruiser reached the reviewing grounds two mi. south of Ambrose Lightship, followed by the Louis-mile bearing lesser lights of the Government. Out of the distant haze emerged the battleship Pennsylvania, flagship of the Fleet, with the clean, high silhouets of airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington behind...
...inches of dust. The rich fertility of a million farms took to the air: 300,000,000 tons of soil billowing through the sky. Housewives in Des Moines could write their names in grime upon their table tops. Aviators had to climb 15,000 ft. to get above the pall. A dust storm 900 mi. wide, 1,500 mi. long swept out of the drought-stricken West. In dust-darkened Chicago excited Board of Trade brokers bid up wheat prices 5? in one day (the maximum), raised the price to 93? a bu.-up 17? in two weeks. That...