Word: posed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week, after reluctantly dismissing Greyhound Southball Moonstone, Collie Bellhaven Black Lucason, Sealyham Gunside Babs of Hollybourne and Pomeranian Wonder Son, Judge Alfred B. Maclay ordered Duke and Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge's fine white-&-liver pointer Nancolleth Marquis to trot around the ring again. He had them pose once more and then gave first prize-a rosette and a silver bowl-to Duke's owner...
...Pittsburgh one morning went eagle-nosed Major-General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, to speak at a banquet.* That same day Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante was appearing at a Pittsburgh theatre. Stepping off his train, General Butler thrust his head forward in characteristic pose, stomped down the platform. Loiterers, mistaking him for the well-publicized Durante, began to cheer. That evening nosey Comedian Durante turned up at the banquet where nosey General Butler was speaking. A cameraman snapped them nose to nose...
...Chief Clarence E. Webb of Sacramento, Calif., who accused Rudy of teaching Fay to drink. Soon all issues were forgotten in a noisy, three-sided squabble among the opposing lawyers and Justice Cotillo. Climax came when Rudy, enraged by one of his wife's lawyers, struck a fighting pose, threatened to scuffle. Abruptly, Justice Cotillo closed the trial, retired to ponder...
...himself, to his country, and to the shreds and patches of Western civilization to weigh carefully the problems upon which Hector Lazo throws a searchlight in "Taps." The book tells the story of a young, ardent, Hun-damning warrior, who, forced as a Secret Service man to pose as a conscientious objector, is finally persuaded by the force of his own assumed arguments and by the pleading of a wounded friend to become in all seriousness the determined kind of pacifist which he had been impersonating. Hector Lazo here brings up in suggestive and stimulating form, issues which may well...
...called "Weak Rival." . . . You show [Hobart's] portrait to the best advantage; you do not even snap his picture with his hand raised aloft, taken at a time when he was trying to silence enthusiastic friends and admirers. You do not picture him in such a pose, because you think a casual observer will think he were a Fascist or a Nazi. Why do you not come right out in the open and say Belgrano is Fascist? You do not dare, because you know it is untrue. Still you seek to create that as an impression...