Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later His Majesty attempted to entice Her Majesty onto a bathroom scale. "No thank you," said she firmly, but waited indulgently while he stood upon the plate and exclaimed "Right!" as the pointer touched...
Fascismo has its extreme right wing, a group of zealots called "The Savages" in Italian argot. Last fortnight one of these bravos, Signor Mario Carli, set forth in his newspaper, L'Impero, certain maxims...
...mist along the race-track at Daytona Beach, Fla., yelled "Action," Frank Lockhart, driver, who had decided not to try for a new auto record that day, turned his car around, drove at 225 miles an hour into the measured mile, hit soft sand, somersaulted into the ocean, landed right side up, in the front pages and in the hospital, suffering from shock...
...forty-seven seconds of fighting he climbed out again onto the shoulders of yelling spectators. Alone in the ring with his handlers, a curly-headed Jew, Sidney Terris ("Pride of the Ghetto"), came slowly back to consciousness, asked what had happened, and began to cry. A single short right to the jaw had finished him. McLarnin, boxing sensation of the season, is matched to fight loafing Lightweight-Champion Samuel Mandell in June...
...fortnight ago Mrs. Bertrand Russell, author of The Right to be Happy, wife of the English philosopher, was refused the privilege of speaking before the "mixed" Student Forum at the University of Wisconsin on the subject:."Should Women Be Protected?" This subject involved companionate marriage, in which Mrs. Russell is a firm and earnest believer. President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin had been consulted by the Student Forum and had approved of barring of Mrs. Russell (TIME...