Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were rehearsing "Hamlet" up in London, a poor little fellow came to me and applied for the part of Second Grave Digger. He was very much discouraged at the way things were going, and he wished the part of Second Grave Digger so he could lie down and pull the grave in after him. By degrees, I got his story from him, and the great outstanding fact about it was that he had neglected to visit, every so often, his home town. Indeed, he couldn't remember where his home town was located, so I made...
...limited, and with lectures worth only sixty cents why not cut more often and regain time? But in the end this proceeding more than equals the savings from cut rate fees, recalling the story of the man who threw his return trip ticket out the window just to "pull something over on the railway...
...three University eights got off to a smooth start at about 36 and held even for the first hundred yards. Then settling to a steady pull around 30, the first crew, began to draw away from the seconds who were rowing a point or two lower, while the thirds, unable to hold the hot pace set by the two leaders, gradually dropped behind...
...second eight picked up the race, handicapped by this two length lead, and, after spurting so that open water no longer showed between the shells, held its own, rowing a somewhat lower stroke. On the final stretch, however, it could not pull up on the first eight. The Freshmen, who had rowed at rather a low stroke for the whole distance, trailed by about three lengths. The distance to the Harvard Bridge, which is only a few feet short of a mile, was covered in 5 minutes and 3 seconds...
...eights are bringing their own shells, one of which, according to Mr. Herbert Reed of the New York Evening Post, "is one of the triumphs of the shell builder's art", carrying all the weight of the heavy first eight and not "sousing down" at the finish of the pull-through...