Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consists of interpolations: the fleeting memories and thoughts of Haeckla. To put it another way the cover blurb quotes Miss Chilton as saying that this is "a melodrama of the intellect." For an embryo novelist to attempt a plan so diffuse and snatchy is more than bold. To pull it off without creating boredom would have been magnificent- but the book bores. When all is said and done, Haeckla and Dennis were torturing their souls about nothing-and only a great novelist can fling the mantle of Art about a nothingness, then convince the reader that there is a live...
...Chaplin case," continued Bob, "I think Lita is in the right and Charley is in wrong. It's different from the Browning case. 'Peaches' couldn't get what she wanted . . . she was trying to pull Browning's leg. There was a lot of 'antics' too that won't come out in the paper...
...lived at the Shoreham. Presidents waiting for the White House to be evacuated or renovated, stopped at the Shoreham. Diplomats dined and champagne bottles popped, even after Prohibition, at the Shoreham. . . . Last week it was announced that rough workmen would attack the Shoreham's ugly but distinguished copings, pull it down to make way for an office building. Washington's proudest hotels these days are the New Willard, the Wardman Park...
...history of man, and the first sport a person turns to in his life is track--from the minute one is born until one dies, track is a daily occupation for every man. Not everyone is born with a football under his arm, nor is every man able to pull an oar or bat baseballs out of the yard, but 99 44-100 per cent of the world is born with two legs that were intended for hard usage...
Died. William Merrick Sweet, 66, eye surgeon; in Philadelphia, of pneumonia. He experimented successfully with plastic surgery on the eyeball, devised a method of using x-rays to locate foreign bodies in eyes, but gained best repute for the electro-magnet he invented in 1905 to pull iron and steel splinters from eyes...