Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr, expert Lapp herder, who is accompanied by three other Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant and a member of the Alaskan Geographical Survey Department. Reindeer fare in winter is the hardy Alaskan lichen; to get it deer must paw through a foot of snow. In summer they graze on greens, willow buds, blueberries...
...dress? You can't tell school teachers from ladies now a days.' . . . Tom shambled into my conference room and lounged in a chair; the pool of his clear honest eyes was troubled. He liked the girl, he said, awfully, but he wished she'd not 'paw' him, they weren't engaged or anything. Last evening he'd told her so; in fact had gone into it at some length. When he'd finished she'd said: 'Oh, Tom, I just love to hear you talk like that! Kiss me, sweetie...
...Shore, L. I., William Leach, hunter, rested his gun on the floor of an automobile, the barrel under his armpit. His dog placed its paw on the trigger, fired a charge into Leach's shoulder, fracturing his right collar bone and shoulder blade...
...swords of wit with Schomburg himself, saves a little French dancer from ruffians and takes her to live with him. He wanders feverishly through Europe feeling the days slip by. When he wants to hide, Schomburg seems near, watching like a cat, keeping him in reach with a careless paw. The dancer informs Schomburg of their whereabouts, believing him Ibrahim's wise but unappreciated doctor. Thus there is suspense, leading to a pathetic, human, amusing climax that no reviewer should reveal. Author Dekobra has motored all through Europe, tiger-hunted in the Congo, canoed up the Nile, translated Daniel...
...been the discovery of the fact that the U. S., including the hinterland, will clap hands for fine drama as loudly as it does for good circuses, jazz bands, leg shows. Rockbound is about a salty family caught in the fishnets of circumstance on the Maine coast. Maw and Paw Higgins derive no poetic ecstacies from their native rocks and waves, but they are fairly well adjusted until Maw's long-lost illegitimate daughter returns and begins to yearn for her halfbrother. Events then seethe through Paw's discovery of Maw's sins to one of those...