Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murderers aboard an old ship. And at one nightmarish juncture M.G.M.'s scripters manage to hang Skelton, Rags Ragland, Ann Rutherford and Jean Rogers, in a gently swinging human chain, from the top of an elevator shaft. High comic moment: Red Skelton, as anchor-man for this gibbering pendulum, decides to rest his hands by letting go and standing on the shoulders of Rags Ragland, who is desperately clinging to Skelton's ankles...
They were banking on a trend. The political pendulum is now definitely swinging to the left in Canada. C.C.F. was betting it must swing much farther...
Most Southern Democratic leaders have liked the pork but not the principles of the New Deal. Now, with the political pendulum swinging away from those principles, and the pork scarce, they were prepared to speak their minds. In their minds were two questions : 1 ) How far were they prepared to carry their revolt? 2) How far would the rank-&-file Southern voters follow them...
...quite apart from a swinging of the pendulum, such as educators have seen so often in the past, I cannot imagine that this republic could reject the tradition of the liberal arts. For a judicious blending of the study of man and nature is the only sure foundation of a free commonwealth...
...deck, got into a lifeboat. Said he: "My head began to grow very, very large and I couldn't sit up and I commenced to throw up in the boat." His head felt "as large as a chair." Later he had hand tremors, a "pendulum pain" in the left side of his head, wrist weakness, stiff hands with palms that felt very thick. After treatment on Long Island he felt better, did not have his headaches so regularly. Said he: "As soon as I am healed, I propose to go back...