Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president, coming into office the way President Coolidge came in, could expect to pull a party guilty of such practises out of its hole. But President Coolidge, in my opinion, has handled the situation about as badly as it could be handled. He was given the country a lot of platitudes, but people soon get tired of platitudes, especially when the President doesn't stand by them. He took no action until forced to do so by public opinion. He then forced Denby, who had never been accused of dishonesty, out of office after he said he would...
...wide-tooth comb; fine-tooth combs pull the hair out. Hairbrush bristles should be only moderately stiff...
...butterfly chaser, whose hat was stamped on by a rude bully of a rival and Whereas he did not promptly strike that rival dead, he was therefore turned out of the swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then as a flick of his deft cambric handkerchief, he worsts that most delectable of all villains, Noah Beery, and returns to wipe his feet on the top piece of his rival. The whole is served in Southern style, with a beautiful, beautiful heroine...
...oarsmen and cox in crew C were the victims. When above the Brighton bridge,--nearly to the first dam in Watertown,--their shell struck a piece of ice, which punched a small hole amidships. The shell rapidly filled and before the crew could pull ashore, the water had nearly reached the gunwales. The men jumped into the water and abandoned the shell to Coach Stevens in his launch. Theoretically, they ran back to the boathouse, but it is rumored that nine men in dripping rowing togs arrived at Newell shortly after the accident in automobiles...
Coach Stevens had all three crews upon the water for fifteen minutes. When the 24 oarsmen took the water, a chilling wind was blowing and after the sun dropped out of sight a few minutes later, rowing was very disagreeable. However, Coach Stevens had the men pull up and down the short distance several, times. He gave little instruction, since acquiring the feel of the water was the chief aim of the afternoon...