Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the station's till were gone when his mother found Harlen Pitts still kneeling, one of his hands clamped in a vise, the other held firmly to the bench by a large nail driven through the palm...
Keep the skis and wax for some time in a warm room before waxing. Rub on a rough coating over the running surface of the skis, and smooth it down with the palm of the hand, rubbing it in one direction only; that is, from point to back...
Proclaimed President George at Vienna, Ga. : "Porters should be called by some official title, perhaps 'Porter' or, why not call them bv their own names?" Introduced to New York's vacationing Governor Herbert Henry Lehman at Palm Springs, Calif., Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 7, played Ping-Pong and shuffleboard with him, became engrossed in pro longed conversation, afterwards reported: "We were talking politics." Irked since he first spotted the Harvard University seal displayed on the Rhode Island State House library ceiling among the seals of 16 renowned printers, Gover nor Theodore Francis ("Teddy") Green, Brown & Harvard Law School...
Straus Hall, Bartow Kelly; Matthews Hall, Vinton A. Dearing; Grays Hall, Rodman Gilder, Jr.; Massachusetts Hall, Peter E. Pratt; Wigglesworth Hall, Douglas Mercer and James W. Palm; the Union, Walter I. Ridder...
...Germany must have a peace, supported not by the palm-leaves of lacrimonious hired female-mourners, but founded by the victorious sword of a Master-People which brings the world into the service of a higher Kultur...