Word: scrapingly
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Second Fiddles. The scrape of the second fiddle grew loud in the land as a score of the G. O. P.'s ablest performers suddenly learned that the big solo part might have to be reassigned. While the performers tuned up and decided what to play, their friends bowed to the audience to make preliminary introductions. Henry Ford bowed for Herbert C. Hoover. William Randolph Hearst bowed for Andrew W. Mellon. Frank 0. Lowden rushed home to Illinois from the Thousand Islands and repeated his favorite cryptogram about no man ever running away from the presidency. Vice President Dawes clenched...
...Again in this same number 'I have to leap from the floor onto a table and off about ten times in succession. If one is not terribly careful, it is annoyingly easy to scrape one's leg in making the flight...
Stops were male along the bleak coast line at the tiny settlements in the sheltered bays. Altogether there were only 35 families, 200 people in all, which scrape up a bare existence in this barren land...
...heard Bryan for more than two hours on the silver question. I discovered that one could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape a fact or a sound statement...
...respect: unlike the nomadic folk of other countries they are not Romanies* but Englishmen. During famines and plagues and-as in the legendary case of Robin and his merrie men-during political upheavals, poor townsfolk or villagers have taken to the open road, the woods and the fields to scrape, beg or poach a living as best they can. England's winters are not severe enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today, if you stop at a romantic sylvan encampment in the New Forest and converse...