Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks ago, at the ceremonious opening of a $120,000 mission hospital at St. Anthony, on the uppermost tip of Newfoundland, Sir William Allardyce, Governor of Newfoundland and Laborador, acting on instructions from his King, smote Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell on the right shoulder with a sword and bade "the Knight Errant of the North" arise a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George...
...mood of the convention was described by Editor Donald F. Stewart* of the Mooseheart Magazine (monthly circulation, 763,000). "The most significant aspect," he said, ". . . is that it marks the end of... shoulder-slapping, grips and passwords and the beginning of a new fraternalism at work on a concrete program of social service for the welfare of the entire community...
Nevertheless, shoulder-slapping, grips and the password, "Howdy, Pap!" were not entirely laid aside before the Mooses sat down to discuss their concrete program. The word "pap" does not connote, to Mooses, a bland sort of mush or gruel fed to infants. When Moose greets Moose he merely pronounces the initials of "Purity, Aid, Progress." There was, of course, a gorgeous parade, which rain could not discourage, through streets which the Philadelphia Moose lodge (the largest, with 30,000 members) had spent some $35,000 to decorate becomingly with moose statues on pedestals, an arch of loyalty, flags, bunting...
Union Square. In a typical U. S. square (Union Square, Manhattan), 10,000 people stood shoulder to shoulder before a bulletin of the Daily Worker. Toward midnight they read...
...minutes less than Miss Ederle had taken; but three hours, 24 minutes longer than George Michel, the plump, record-holding French baker. Thomas W. Burgess, bronzed Nestor of English natation, and second- man to swim the Channel (in 1911), clapped his pupil heartily on a greasy shoulder. Evelyn Pettipiere, Mr. Temme's fiancee, rushed forward for a wet embrace...