Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sawing & Skiing. Work details at Cardigan are voluntary; goldbricks who shirk them get a cold shoulder from their buddies, but no other punishment. Cardigan officially frowns on "highly competitive sports [which] do more harm than good" for younger boys, gives them plenty of hiking, fishing, skating and skiing instead. On its 140 acres, the school also owns an old mill with a water-driven saw, where students will make furniture under the eye of a teacher who used to be foreman in a furniture shop...
Peggy's story was worth one line in a gossip column until the News went to work on it: a stranger had planted kisses on Peggy Joyce's shoulder, proposed to her, and had been knocked cold by her escort, Comedian Joey Adams. Methodically, Legman David Charnay tracked down all hands, helped them say quotable things...
...Halfback George Franck also got sent to the hospital-banged-up shoulder...
...warriors also won awards of a sort. General Dwight D. Eisenhower got a month's leave of absence-his first in eleven years, except for one week last July and two days last May. He would spend it in Miami, getting hospital treatment for bursitis (inflammation) in the shoulder. And Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 64, who had long wanted it, was finally allowed to be "relieved of active participation in the Navy."** The dog-jawed Pacific hero, recovering in a Manhattan hospital after a hernia operation, was not retired, because fleet admirals are just not retired; officially...
...phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland, dipped into the year-long correspondence over it that passed between The Chief and his men, let the trade look over the shoulder of an 83-year-old journalistic genius at work. Excerpts...