Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serving wildly, lost the first game. Austin, sleek-haired, wearing ?3 flannel shorts, worked the score to 4-all, then broke Shields's serve, took the set, 6-4. Flustered by an opponent who refused to be stampeded by cannonball serves and occasional blistering volleys, Shields tried to pull his game together, managed to lead, 4-2, in the second set. Thereafter the match was all Austin...
...protect the Dionne quintuplets from "exploiters from American cities who come to Canada to pull off a racket," the Province of Ontario last week appointed four "big strapping fellows" as guardians. Exclaimed Ontario's Attorney-General Arthur Wentworth Roebuck: ''There is no law which would permit us to deal adequately with the American gentlemen attempting to exploit the children. So we must be satisfied with circumventing their scheme. Promoters may take whatever action they please to enforce their contract to exhibit the children in Chicago. But if they get the children out of the hands of these...
Perhaps Mr. Sliver was attempting to pull TIME's leg, or had had his pulled so realistically that he actually believed such deliveries take place. The impossibility of such a thing is seen upon analysis. Mr. Stiver states that there were no copies [of TIME] in Seattle, as none had been printed while he was en route from Chicago. That being the case, how could copies not printed at the time sail ahead of him, presumably on one of the C.P.R. ships, be dumped off in the north Pacific, and be awaiting the arrival of the President Cleveland...
Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson secretary-assistant to NRAdministrator Johnson: This new day offers abundant opportunity to our secretaries. . . . The door is open. It is up to the women to make the grade. . . . Pull is the bunk. Push and merit are all that count...
...Facing a possible death sentence on his expensive property every half year, it is only human that the broadcaster should endeavor, as the popular phrase so prettily puts it, not to stick his neck out." Taken by the Tribune as a direct warning to broadcasters to pull in their necks was the announcement by Radio Commissioner Harold A. Lafount last August: "It is the patriotic, if not the bounden and legal duty, of all licensees . . . to deny their facilities to advertisers who are disposed to defy, ignore or modify the codes established...