Word: sling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clinton Benedict Lockwood, heard sounds of a row between the doorman and a drunk. She went to pacify him while the doorman left to get help. He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling. He was a member of Spain's famed Guardia Civil, crack police corps on whose goodwill largely depends the survival of the Spanish Republic. The Guardia Civil trains its picked men to have an exaggerated sense of personal dignity, backs them up in it. The Spanish Government backs the Guardia...
...reading periods, "which would be a great loss to the college as a whole." There is, further, a subtle irony. Establishments which depend for their daily bread on the fact that the measure of a Harvard man's scholastic achievement is taken almost entirely from his ability to sling ink into blue books and which gravy that bread by clinging to the pragmatic belief that the stupidity of examination questions varies little from year to year and always in direct proportion to the ease of marking--these establishments "make the students feel that the important thing in college...
...said he would never have run "had I known in advance that my character was to be so severely impugned at the hands of the Chief Executive of my own State." To this the Governor replied that he would not have slung mud had there not been mud to sling. Voters were to decide this week...
...Correspondent (Columbia). If the journalist in this picture wore a patch on his eye instead of a sling on his arm, Hearst-Reporter Floyd Gibbons might have good grounds for a libel suit. Correspondent Franklin Bennett (Ralph Graves) chatters rapidly into microphones while covering Sino-Japanese hostilities and has several even more unpleasant traits. He is a craven poseur who romanticizes his newsgathering exploits hoping that his public will consider him a hero. The antagonism between Ralph Graves and Jack Holt which has been maintained through several recent pictures is more bitter than usual in this one. Holt...
...throwing the javelin for practice. Modern javelins are straight wooden rods 8.5 ft. long, weighing 1.6 lb. They are tipped with steel. In making the throw the expert runs swiftly for a stretch, stops short and heaves the rod past his ear. In effect he makes a throwing sling of his entire body...