Word: skips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Duranty, was that it "brought forth three resolutions to skip like mice across the pages of the newspaper Pravda" (Truth). The three resolutions "contain nothing new. . . . The fundamental stumbling block to Soviet progress today is the food shortage of which the resolutions say nothing. The shortage is causing neither famine nor hunger but it is a universal shortage...
...bear eugenic, fatherless progeny. Others are a lady murderess, a psychopath, an Italian woman, a mother of six-blessedly quiet and collected about the whole business-a malingerer who wants the relief of an abortion. The affairs of this gallery of victims to nature run into each other, bump, skip and leap across two hours of pitiless, often nervously gay drama which should give a childless husband pause, possibly make him a little...
...proper frame of mind to legislate today. I think it would do us all good to have an opportunity to cool off and to think." Thereupon at his suggestion the House adjourned, laying the tax bill aside for three full days. Also at his suggestion it was agreed to skip 200 pages forward through the measure and have a showdown vote on the sales tax provision early this week...
Every move by the Mirror is carefully considered lest it give Winchell the supreme satisfaction of breaking his contract. The instant that should occur Winchell would skip three blocks downtown to Joseph Medill Patterson's big little Daily News (completing his ascension of the scale of Manhattan tabloids). According to Newsdom, weekly of unemployed newspapermen, the News offered Winchell $1,000 a week for a Sunday colyum alone...
...skip and jump but we don't just "run around." There isn't just one kolo, but many of them and with a great many variations in steps. In some kolos the dancers go to one side then the other, in some they go back and forth and in others they go in only one direction. Sometimes, too, they go up and down. But only those who don't know better just run around. The beauty of the kolo is that most everyone present takes a part, loosens his spirit and forgets himself in a community...