Word: pullings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately some blundering student happened along in the meantime and pumped the pump handle in passing with the same indifference that he would pull a fire alarm. But when he saw the foamy liquid gush forth into the trough, he let fly all thoughts of indifference, inertia, and psychic income, and lunged toward the dwindling stream of beer...
...Pull up your trousers!' " Though Suvorin was 26 years the elder, the two became close friends. The Dreyfus Case finally put an end to their intimacy: Chekhov was a strong supporter of Zola and the Dreyfusards, Suvorin was a professional anti-Semite...
...thus apparent that Eros was so small that its force of gravity was too weak to pull it into anything resembling a sphere. Last week Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, reading a paper for a Harvard colleague, gave the most probable dimensions of Eros as 22 miles long, seven miles across, and its shape as roughly cylindrical, with rounded ends...
...same year Paris dadaists gave a "Festival" in the respectable Salle Gaveau Concert Hall. The program bore the announcement: "Personal Appearance of Charlie Chaplin. The dadaists will pull their hair out in public." Neither event occurred, nor did such promised attractions as the first performance of Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building...
...sleep and wake up again when H--comes in, suggests excursion into town. Pull myself together and a sprinkle of cold water on my face does wonders, and we go to Boston. H--is buying a Christmas present for his baby niece in Omaha. He picks out a wooly white cat, very gaga, with green wool eyes. The cat and H--and I stop for a milkshake, my half-eclipsed condition precluding more nocuous refreshment...