Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome, determined, the mother of three children. She pursued the artist relentlessly, carefully tucked him in at night, worried for fear he would freeze, scolded him about her wages, wept readily, was devoted, affectionate, jealous. The artist escaped her long enough to get into an innocent scrape with her rival, Anna, and to enjoy a brief affair with the lovely Pauline, with whom he lived during a stretch of exceptionally cold weather. In the end Salamina married a carpenter...
...outdoor job that will put us in shape. I suppose we will have to go up to the Cape with the family after all. That's not much fun. There's nobody up there any more. We'd sort of like to get the boat in shape--scrape her down and put a few new coats of paint on her. We might go out to Wyoming to that dude ranch we went to last year. That was good fun and it sure makes you healthy. Dad wants us to go fishing in Canada with him and that ought...
...Rafael Brache, put a quiet little bee in his ear. Minister Brache sent his Government a long cablegram, flew down to Santo Domingo to amplify it. Last week, before he had arrived, Trujillo set $50,000 bail for Barletta. Barletta's friends began trying to scrape up the $50,000 and for the moment Mussolini put his warboat back in his pocket...
...might be with the missing Memorial Hall bell clapper now if a member of the Yard Police hadn't surprised the group of roaring rowdies, fresh from the muskrat slaughter in the Yard. But their efforts to roll him, drag him, scrape him away ended ignominiously in the safety of a speeding...
...student revolutionary society in St. Petersburg. When his father with difficulty got him acquitted, Tarabas was shipped off to the U.S. In Manhattan he made violent love to a Russian waitress, made more violent scenes when she cast her eyes elsewhere. He might have landed in a serious scrape when he throttled her employer, but war broke out just then, and Tarabas went back to Russia to fight the Germans...