Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indications of Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape were stirring in his brain. Since the plays have been played and published for some time, their content is familiar. It only remains to be noted that the Provincetown group set and performed them notably. There are no star parts which pull above the surface the heads of one player or another. As a company, they give a singularly complete performance...
General Primo de Rivera, like all military geniuses, may be too opaque to see the joke, but if he does, Bagaria were better in Mars than in Spain. It is scarcely good policy to pull the lion's tail when one is locked alone with him in the cage...
...Prime Minister is in the hands of the desperadoes of his party. The country is revolting against this form of Government, as it is not Government by the better men of the party, but by men in the background, who pull the strings and dictate the policy and hold the Prime Minister in bondage...
...quite the best bit of prose in the issue--would be more in order if made to the original author of the Schoolboy Epistles, Mr. Wallace Irwin, rather than to the fictitious and mysterious Ervine. Having been wholly disagreeable thus far, may we exhort the Lampoon Editors to pull together and return with the next number to work that will lift the eyebrows of 1928 and prove that Lampy is still what it has been since 1876--our first and foremost college weekly
...Legislative Agent of the Farm Bureau Federation. He is the Federation's mouthpiece in Washington, keeps tab on the legislation that farmers are interested in. He is probably the greatest of the new type of lobbyist. The old type of lobbyist was a man who went around pulling wires, invoicing "pull," giving parties, wining and dining the men whom he expected to pass his bills. The new type of lobbyist is entirely aboveboard. His weapon is the card index. He keeps tab on everything and everybody that affects the things he is interested in. Mr. Silver's record...