Word: ramrodded
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...feelingly that he becomes an object almost for sympathy rather than dislike. He does two splendid bits: 1) when he handles a copy of the New Masses as though it were a bushmaster (see cut), and 2) when his emotions get the better of his rigidity and, standing ramrod straight, he tells his fiancée: "I love you." Unfortunately the finely conceived and acted doctor is surrounded by drama that wavers uncertainly between comedy and solemnity. The comedy, as often with Behrman, tends to be forced, brittle. The solemnity isn't pointed up. And Ina Claire, far from...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Francis Warren Pershing, a son, their first; in Manhattan. Hearing the news as he was taking the cure at Hot Springs, lusty old General John J. Pershing, straight as a ramrod at 80. chortled: "I'm very happy to be a grandfather...
...their union with faithful companions who have been neither maids, wives nor widows. With the slogan "Legalize and Moralize!" a mass marriage was arranged in Mexico City at the National Stadium, packjammed with approving spectators. Several soldiers' brides carried babes in arms, but outstanding newlyweds were a trim, ramrod-backed officer and his stern, hollow-cheeked wife, who were proudly married in the presence of their brood of five...
...Judge Walter C. Lindley took his seat on the bench and the jury of farmers and merchants stumbled into the box. The 17 sat ramrod-straight as the farmer-foreman handed up the verdict. The clerk began to read: General Motors Corporation, guilty; General Motors Sales Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation of Indiana, guilty. He began the list of individual defendants: Alfred P. Sloan, William S. Knudsen, M. E. Coyle. . . . Over the faces of the defendants fell a dark shadow. The maximum penalty for the conspiracy as charged was a fine...
Today, Paderewski's once-golden, once-silver mane is grey and thinning at the top. But he still sports the oversized, low, soft collars and droopy ties that he wore in the time of Queen Victoria. Watery-eyed and frail, but still erect as a ramrod, he now walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like...