Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute mass meeting, it was learned, Jordan told students to write down the serial numbers of their bills each night; when any money was stolen, they should report it to the administration. According to one girl, "he talked to us straight from the shoulder...
...Society. Here 315 falls down. It has page after page of far from sprightly text on the activities of myriad teams and organizations; far too little about who was in those organizations. This policy carries over to its pictures. The "firing squad" photographs of groups shoulder-to-shoulder are largely gone, a shrewd move esthetically but a bad one for a scrapbook: it will seriously reduce the book's reference and grandchild value. When 315 does break down and run a firing squad, the names of the people are carefully omitted...
...suddenly there was an interruption. The President turned and peered, beaming, over his shoulder. "Where," he asked, "are all those little kids?" The attorneys fell back. Presently, the President stood flanked by children, his hand resting on the shoulder of an especially photogenic little girl. "This," he confided to her, smiling paternally as the flashlights blinked, "will ruin you for life...
...Arthur Schwartz's lively score is as full of good spirits and front-stoop romance as an old-fashioned block party. Marcia Van Dyke and Johnny Johnston sing the love songs (I'll Buy You a Star, Make the Man Love Me, etc.) straight from the shoulder; veteran Comedienne Shirley Booth comes through with a fine Brooklyn boid in her verce...
...project, "Henry IV, Part II." The HDC rejected this offer stating that it wished to preserve its identity and did not wish to work on the proposed play. At that time the HDC stated that an offer of merger the previous spring had been treated "with a cold shoulder...