Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lewis articles gained wide notice in the U. S. Editors-envied the Evening Post its coup. Foreign correspondents outwardly echoed the sentiments of the Evening Post's Miss Thompson in Berlin, who said to Super-Reporter Lewis with mock grudging: "I guess it's all right, but it does seem a rather long way of saying, as I could, 'Flew to Vienna. Quiet...
...right. I choose 3 p. m., Sunday, July 24 next." Astute, the Judge chose the hour during which the New York Federation of Churches had been broadcasting the past four years. He would reach the ears of his "enemy" congregations; he would make the "devil's" spear serve as the staff of Jehovah, whose aid-de-camp he pictures himself...
...pounds off our burden of flesh? ... If we should ever have knapsacks of unlimited power, our whole present day world will be turned upI side down. ... All the legislatures will be busily engaged in passing laws prohibiting people from leaving the earth too freely, or rules for the right of way up and down and sideways, or regulations against landing on the head of a fellow citizen or planting a foot on any part of him as you rise. And then there will be all the new rules of etiquette: should you pass over or around a lady...
...There is no question about the punch on the left leg with a right ?a punch on Sharkey's left leg by Dempsey's right. It was a sweeping blow which glanced off the leg and it was followed by Dempsey's left to the solar plexus, which was the decisive blow as I saw it. When Sharkey got the solar plexus punch he grunted. Before the solar plexus blow was delivered and after the right landed on Sharkey's left leg, I was stepping in toward the men, saying: 'Watch your punches, Jack.' Then, realizing there were...
...ring, were expected to settle the positive contentions of three schools of thought which sprang up from the split-second observations of many men and their emotional memories. But when the films were shown, Dempsey's back was found squarely blocking from view the disputed action of his right fist in the seventh round. The schools of contention all thrived and the films were virtually tripled in value. Every cinema spectator could still be his own referee on the thrust which men held, variously, had 1) landed fair, above Sharkey's high-waisted purple trunks; or 2) landed foul...