Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tell me whether your writers chuckle to themselves with a delicious feeling of superiority when they put something unexpectedly extra on the ball, as for example...
Secretary Hull put the Declaration of Panama on a strictly if-as-and-when basis: if belligerent France, Great Britain or Germany decline to recognize the American Neutral Zone, the American Republics will "consult," and see what is to be done next...
...foresee the growth and acceptance of a native American art-the Iowa landscapes of Grant Wood, serene and sunny; the turbulent Missourians of Thomas Benton (see cut, p. 31), calling up the hard-eyed, banjo-playing, riverboat life of the Central South; the innocent art of John Kane, who put the steel mills and freight trains of Pittsburgh on canvas for the first time and who took machinery in his stride. "Look at those trains!" he said, as he painted Turtle Creek Valley with the green hills and the red brick houses in the background, beyond the smoky railroad yards...
...every nickel spent coking were put in a pig-bank by each college student, college would be a much less amusing place. --Baylor University Daily...
Besides being a real pianist, Fats is a marvelous showman. Not only can he add some extremely funny innuendoes to the most innocuous songs, but be manages to put a spirit of horseplay into everything he does that makes an evening of listening to him an event...