Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the most convincing advertisement of an entirely different character is the Roll Call of The White Company, published about once a year...
...defendant's son-in-law as follows: "A scrap of breathing flesh, unable to feed, clothe herself, or otherwise care for her own personal needs. The only exercise she ever got was when she was placed on the floor when the weather was warm and allowed to roll around. She couldn't talk?the only time I ever heard her utter a vocal sound was once when she fell on a hot furnace grating. Then she uttered a sort of animal sound. She was absolutely helpless...
...Commonwealth and of the City. And the graduation day picture was completed at the close of the second act, when Mr. Jewett in response to polite applause after his somewhat pompous speech, advanced to the footlights and proceeded to recite a great many lines of heroic verse after the "Roll-on-thou-deep-and-vast-blue-ocean-Roll" manner of the Elocution Class. Very luckily for the audience Mr. Francis Wilson bounced on to the stage a few moments later and in an absurdly serious speech, satirized the solemn bromides of the proceeding speakers so masterfully that the atmosphere...
...bedside of one Mae Wahl, an anemic patient at the Greenpoint Hospital, L. I., a husky blood-seller was conducted, introduced, and told to roll up his sleeve. Through a hollow needle, a doctor then connected a tube with a vein in his arm. The tube led up to a barrel-shaped cylinder about an inch high from which on the other side a similar tube stretched to prick the chilly flesh of poor Mae Wahl. The doctor turned a switch and a plunger began to work in the cylinder. On the down stroke it sucked blood...
...this day he does not know the difference between a photograph and a painting .... Our Adelphi Terrace windows looked right into Shaw's.... One day Barrie, who then lived under us, wanted to show Shaw to some guests he had to lunch, and he fired a roll from his dining table through the open window on to Shaw's table and his guests saw Shaw and heard him too .... He can be very amusing when he does not try to be; when he does not pose and is just Shaw, expatriate, transplanted Irishman...