Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Artist Rivera could pull the trigger, bystanders intervened. But honor had been impugned and a duel was in order. Half an hour's furious talk on the part of the authorities convinced both principals that the duel should be one of words, to be held in the same place the following night...
...Herring with their father, Curtis Bean Dall, Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt ("Buzzie") Dall asked their host to help them do a trick. Governor Herring thrust his hand through the hinge crack of an open door, had a large glass of water placed between his fingers. Unable to pull his hand out without dropping the glass, Governor Herring held it for several minutes while the Dall children whooped & hollered with delight. Then the Governor's 5-year-old grandson took the glass from his flustered grandfather...
...timely blast of an automotive horn. I uphold the saying "Rely on your brakes instead of your horn," but that axiom does not always apply. How does noiseless Mr. Brown expect to pass a lumbering motor truck on a narrow road? The driver would be only too glad to pull over if he knew someone wished to pass. IT IS NOT ONLY DISCOURTEOUS BUT DANGEROUS TO TRY TO PASS A CAR WITHOUT LETTING THE DRIVER KNOW...
These decree efforts were featured last week by earmarking two billion francs ($132,500,000) to be spent with all speed on employment-creating public works, half by the national Government and the other half by the 86 French prefectures. Obviously, the moment was opportune for Premier Laval to pull tighter the reins by which Paris controls France. For the first time in history all prefects were summoned to the Capital. Most made their trip in their official limousines and gleaming, long-snouted Renaults roared in over all the main roads of France...
...infants whose clothing they fasten. Inventors J. H. Williams of Spokane and Victor Grant Jones of Seattle heard of babies who swallowed open safety pins. Accordingly they invented last week what they called a really safe safety pin. It has a reversed spring, so that pressure is necessary to pull the pin open, and the tine when released springs back into its socket...