Word: rodding
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...woman's greed. Like the famed Wendel family, the Van Bretts owe their fortune in Manhattan real estate to a simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...
...dangerous play: they swam the Guadalquivir at night, climbed into a bullpen and played the bulls naked, using their shirts as matadors' capes. Banderillero Calderon took Belmonte under his wing, taught him everything he knew, made him walk every day to strengthen his feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made it impossible for him to run fast; he always let the bull pass him too close for comfort, sometimes too close lor safety. He served a rough apprenticeship in the ring, fighting wherever...
...banks of the Shannon, a member of a large and odd family," and was reared in the south of England. Her Spartan father, recently deceased, "believed all poets were blackguards, that Moses actually saw God in the brush fire, that ethical excellence could only be inculcated by the heavy rod, that trade was outcast and that the summum bonum of existence was to avoid your neighbor." Miss Gore's mother reared her to believe in poetry, in fantastic superstitions like witches, ghosts and the headless coachman, and in the nobility of the Gores--"if Ireland had her rights each...
...contribution to 1934 motoring is automatic gear-shifting. You still have to put the car in low gear (with a push rod on the dash) but once in gear a few steel weights spinning like a governor on a drum in the rear of the transmission do the rest. When a speed of about 18 m.p.h. is attained, centrifugal force throws out the weights, engaging a small supplementary clutch which throws the car into direct drive (high gear). When the car slows down below 18 m.p.h. the weights drop back, the small clutch disengages and the car is automatically...
...love has General Johnson for Henry Ford, the only major industrialist who has as yet refused publicly to kiss the rod of NRA. General Johnson's attempt to get even by having Secretary Wallace refuse the low bid of a Ford dealer on 1,600 trucks for the Civilian Conservation Corps was frustrated by Comptroller General McCarl (TIME, Nov. 6, 13). Last week General Johnson again tried by catch-as-catch-can tactics to throw Mr. Ford. Once again General Johnson was set back on his heels...