Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Footnote on p. 14 issue of July 24 asks: "Could mules, long trained to walk only between the cotton rows, be driven atop the beds to pull a plow there...
...Banister's appointment resulted more from her own personal influence among Democrats than from her brother's White House "pull." During the War she worked industriously in George Creel's propaganda bureau. Afterwards she switched to the Democratic National Committee as a potent party propagandist among women. Distributed among 3,000 Democratic women's clubs were millions of copies of her pamphlets on the oil scandals, on civil service reform, on party history. She was long publicity director for Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel, started a smart-chart called the Washingtonian which suspended publication...
...first day of the meet, Lenore Kight-who lost by a handbreadth to Helene Madison in the Olympic 400 meters -won two events. Using a free-style (crawl) stroke with even more arm-pull than Miss Madison's, she finished the 100-meter final in 1:10.8, with Olive Hatch Voight second by two feet. In the mile she had an easier time and beat Susan Robertson by 30 yd. When Helene Madison retired last year she held 16 out of the 17 of the world's free-style records up to a mile and it looked...
...drew in for his lobs. He made 92 errors in the course of the match. When Austin was ahead, two sets, 5-4 and 40-15, Vines make a magnificent kill at the net. It looked then for one moment as though he might still recover his form and pull out the game at least. With a fine recovery on what looked like a passing shot, Austin won the next point and the match...
...with such engagingly improbable tales, carried himself with such an unabashed air of grandeur that she was fascinated. A White Russian refugee, by his own account descended from an ancient French family, Count Nicolas spoke and wrote English of a sort; Authoress Benson decided to edit his rodomontadinous reminiscences. Pull Devil, Pull Raker is an antiphonal collaboration: the Count supplies the text. Authoress Benson a disclaiming commentary. Sometimes, when the Count's version sufficiently annoys her professional eye. she balances his account with a rendition of her own. The result is an amusing, sometimes pathetic, altogether entertaining book...