Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aspired to succeed Blomberg both as War Minister and as Field Marshal, was fobbed off last week by simply making him a Field Marshal, today the only one in Germany on active service. So far as "impossible" wives are concerned, Göring tied the Potsdam Code into pretzel shape and swallowed it when he married an actress with what is considered in Germany to be a Jewish name (Sonnemann), although she claims to be no Jewess. The Army swallowed her and it would have swallowed Blomberg's wife if she last week had really been the issue...
...Herndon was also a provincial lawyer, cranky and crude, unable to develop his ideas systematically. Consequently when he came to write his own biography in 1888, he leaned on a young collaborator named Jesse Weik to put it into publishable shape. The book contained enough of Herndon's insight and first-hand knowledge to make it a masterly record, but Weik picked and chose over Herndon's materials as he saw fit; the publishers revised the manuscript, and 70-year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents...
...have never dived in competition before, into divers who may be counted on as strong contenders for points. Smith, Bowman, and Davidson, in that order, are the Yardlings; No. 1, 2, and 3 divers. Because of their lack of experience, it is only hard work that will shape these men into reliable point-winners. Petersen has been watching them daily, and has commented favorably upon their willingness to work hard...
...only warrior who emerged from the smoke of the Great Supreme Court Battle of 1937 in better shape than before was spry old Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, 78. For the judicial code was amended to allow Justices of the Supreme Court, instead of resigning, to retire with full pay ($20,000 a year) guaranteed for life. Justice Van Devanter, who for two years had wanted to retire, seized the opportunity...
...peasant shambles on his boots like hooves Without thinking at all or wanting to run in grooves. And the moneyed, sophisticated city man seems in worse shape: I who was Harlequin in the childhood of the century, Posed by Picasso beside an endless opaque sea, Have seen myself sifted and splintered in broken facets, Tentative pencillings, endless liabilities, no assets...