Word: resister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatrical circles, Berle is best known for his amiable inability to resist the temptation to "lift" the material of other comedians, to such an extent that a fellow comic. Jack Osterman, walking down Broadway with still a third comedian, and seeing Berle billed in front of a theatre, is supposed to have suggested, "Let's go in and catch our acts...
...Arctic. At 21 he made his first voyage, with the sealer Viking. Six years later he led an expedition across Greenland on skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure, he set off in 1893 on the three-year trip he described later in Farthest North. Leaving the From frozen solidly into the drifting ice pack, Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen headed north with dog sleds and kayaks to see how far they could get. Though they...
...look into the future if this graduation from the collegiate bourgeoisie to a higher sophistication goes on? Will our beloved Stanford rough drop into the limbo of forgotten might? Will we see no more paper airplanes sailing in the Assembly Hall? For surely a freshman smooth enough to resist the attacks of those veteran Encina salesmen could never become rough enough to go unshaven and smoke a cigar...
...duckshooting and Brother Oris was calmly addressing New England Governors on the way he would like to see consolidation come about (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). Dexterous financial management and the strong backing of J. P. Morgan & Co. and the George Fisher Baker interests have apparently enabled the "Vans" to resist the forces of disintegration...
California's climate long since ceased to be news. No one knows that better than Arthur Brisbane, able newsman. But on his frequent visits to Publisher Hearst's ranch at San Simeon, and his own alfalfa farm on the Mojave Desert, he cannot resist rhapsodizing in his "Today" colyum over California sunshine, sky, flowers, ocean, mountains...