Word: slinking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must come out and claim our rights. We must deserve and get them. The day is past for a hard-of-hearing person to cling to solitude and slink through the world missing half of life because of a false sense of shame. So put on a hearing aid. Wear it with pride, not as a badge of disgrace!" Thus croaked deafened Novelist Rupert Hughes to fellow members of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing who met in Manhattan last week. On his own lapel he proudly wore one of his several electrical hearing aids...
...uprising and downfall alike, Coriolanus (Erford Gage) commands admiration. The fickle, "garlic-eating'' mob is brought on largely to be sneered at; the wily tribunes of the people slink about as if they expected hisses. All this is faithful to Shakespeare's intentions; but, whatever Shakespeare's sympathies, it is no wronged hero he portrays-Coriolanus is a flawed, fissured, overpassionate man whose intemperate actions are his undoing...
...only thing she can cook worth a darn is slaw with bacon grease on it, and they tell me that's fairly simple. Her kind of car driving makes Tulsa mothers keep their children in, and pedestrians slink up back alleys. She can't sew very well...
cists enters the novel. Mary's husband, turning from a conservative to a radical under the pressure of economic distress, gets into a dispute over the tithe, barricades his house, digs a trench to prevent the tithe-collector from taking away his stock. Shots are fired, mysterious figures slink through the fog, the fascists camp on the farm to protect it from the police. During this imbroglio, Mary's high-minded lover is pushed off a wagon by a policeman. This dislodges two pieces of shrapnel left in his brain since the War, with the result that...
...gravedigger's daughter, who was considered hardly decent because her only dress was a sack. At the inn where peg-legged Pamploix spent his evenings the innkeeper's wife was so squint-eyed that habitues would order a drink from one end of the bar, then slink quickly to the other end, where the drink would be served. It was the great ambition of the baker's old father, a paralytic, to assert his independence by running away to the cemetery, but as the little cart on which he propelled himself could only move in a circle...