Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irish Statesman by Poet-Painter George ("AE") Russell. Great lover, soldier, sailor, singer, toreador, tycoon, jockey, prizefighter, automobile racer, aviator, farmer, scholar, Mickey Mouse lives in a world in which space, time and the laws of physics are null. He can reach inside a bull's mouth, pull out his teeth and use them for castanets. He can lead a band or play violin solos; his ingenuity is limitless; he never fails. Best of Mickey Mouse competitors is Koko the Clown, of Fleischer Bros.' Out-of-the-Inkwell Series. Others: Paul Terry's Aesop's Fables...
...whose bravery as a soldier has won him two Congressional Medals of Honor and the Distinguished Service Medal, has always spoken as he fights, recklessly, ferociously. When he was Philadelphia's Director of Safety, charged with cleaning up speakeasies and vice, his robust language (sample: "I ought to pull his [the mayor's] nose") got him ousted after about a year. He went back to the Marines, was sent to California. There he denounced and courtmartialed his predecessor in command of the post on charges of drunkenness after entertaining General Butler in his home. From California he went...
...with new information, one can never be sure he has a true conception of what Russia is actually doing. It is notorious that the Soviet officials are decidedly circumspect in what they allow foreign visitors to see, and doubtless if Mr. Whalen took the trip they could manage to pull off a good show...
...himself clear at the first try. Practical politicians, on the other hand, regretted that Mr. Hoover had not recognized in the Report a beautiful magic carpet for 1932; that he had first nailed it down Dry so that it could not fly, then damaged it more by trying to pull out his nails...
...experiments in wind pressure on Manhattan's Empire State Building, world's tallest. Total wind pressure on the 1,250-ft. Empire State Building is more than 4,000,000 Ib. Seven per cent of this total represents pressure on the 200-ft. mooring mast and estimated pull from a moored dirigible...