Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criminal trick that dictionaries describe it. A dishonest woman lures a lickerish man into her apartment. Suddenly appears the '"husband," who for cash will overlook his "wife's" indiscretion. Occasionally such blackmail is worked by low men upon rich women. Rarely have the victims sufficient hardihood to resist the imposition...
...attractions of the Ross Sea are a pure germless atmosphere, 24 hours of sunshine every day at the season in which we shall visit it and a cold, dry, invigorating climate with the temperature around 31° Fahrenheit (one degree below freezing). . . . Our good ship will be especially strengthened to resist ice pressure...
...mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's birthplace. He refused a Pullman ticket, made the hot trip in a day coach. At Staunton he collapsed, died of pneumonia which his starved body could not resist. His death made much newspaper copy. Reporters interviewed hoboes passing through their communities. Hobo "kings" bragged that they would carry on his work, that hoboes were hopping on freight trains for his funeral in Washington, that he was a good "stiff" (man). Washington police prepared for an influx of hoboes...
...mess boy on the cruiser Renown when we took the Prince to Canada. I have no work now. I couldn't resist the temptation to say 'Hello, Prince' to an old shipmate...
...been away for six months, and because the ladies of Greece had normal womanly appetites, Miss Bainter had to use a great deal of oratorical persuasion. Finally the women agreed-with reservations. Kalonika-played by winsome Miriam Hopkins in a most demurely diaphanous costume- thought she could resist for two nights, Myrrhina (Hortense Alden) for one. It was easy for the women to resist the crippled nonagenarians left about town, but not so easy when the soldiers came marching home. Sly subterfuges were resorted to by the excited ladies on the Acropolis. Myrrhina remembered that she really should go home...