Word: shoving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gifted with supreme faith in himself, Leon Henderson whirls around Washington in clothes almost sensationally unkempt. He is a dark-haired, truculent 200-pounder with a temper which often sets his fists a-flying, seldom gets him into controversy with superiors who can shove him upward. As a boy out of Millville, N. J., he worked his way through Swarthmore College, played basketball and football there. Once, in a huff, he stripped off his basketball suit, marched naked from the gym. When he was an economics instructor at Carnegie Tech, he had the fortitude to take his class to hear...
Cotton Bowl. Dallas is a Johnny-come-lately. Its Cotton Bowl is only one year old. To shove it into the spotlight this year, Dallas promoters planned a double-header Bowl game (one the day before and one the day after New Year's) between four of the five top teams of the country. But when Texas Christian, of neighboring but envious Fort Worth, refused to come to its party, notwithstanding a proposed junket to the New York World's Fair next year as an added inducement, the Cotton Bowl Association announced that it would stage only...
When Billy Watson (born Isaac Levy) retired from the burlesque business he had made his pile. At 72 he still had plenty, but felt that he was "going nuts from not doing anything." So last week he gave a heave and a shove, and out on a Philadelphia stage waddled his revived Beef Trust, once the prime ribs of burlesque. The current show, Watson claims, is an exact duplicate, gags and all, of the old-time one. But in 1898 top weight for burlesque beauties was 180 pounds; today all Beef-Trusters weigh 200 or more. The Trust...
...urge to vote is so strong that at thousands of polling places crowds of voters waited through much of the previous night for the polls to open. These earliest comers were reported in most cases to be elderly men and women. Vigorous young Russians, confident of being able to shove through the crowds, mostly arrived "late"-that is not until early morning. Many an old woman was reported to have exclaimed after casting her ballot, "I had a terrible headache before-but now it is gone. I feel so much better since I have been able to vote for Stalin...
...bring a nanny goat from New Jersey to Manhattan for the manufacture of goat's-milk ice cream. Last week Spit's case came before Magistrate Kross for disposition. Swaggering, Spit announced he had turned down the job. Said he: "I told the guy I'd shove the goat down his throat. Goats stink; the salary stinks, too. It was a publicity stunt. I can get better jobs than that; besides, I want...