Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boasted old-time Cinemactor William S. Hart, whose estranged wife Winifred Westover has custody of William S. Hart Jr., 12. "Why, he walks down the street with his mother and people turn and stare and say, 'There goes Bill Hart.' It makes his mother sore as hell...
None of these unhappy possibilities occurred. When the week ended, audiences' palms were red and sore and every critical cap was high in the air. Son, like Father D'Oyly Carte, could count New York...
...Sweet pulled on his operating gloves, Warden Lawes, under a brilliant, shadowless box light, felt a nurse swabbing the sore thigh with iodine. Another swung a table of instruments handy. A Negro artist serving a life sentence stepped up on a stool near the operating table. He had pad and pencil to picture the entire operation. Dr. Sweet jabbed a local anesthetic into Warden Lawes's leg. The Warden winced. The Surgeon sliced. The Warden felt nothing. The Surgeon clamped blood vessels, sliced some more, reached a fibrous capsule which enclosed the "tumor...
Virtues. The Press continually refers to Jim Farley as if he were a sore thumb on the morally well manicured hand of the New Deal. In an Administration whose chief attitude is that of being "holier than 1929" he stands out as one who makes no pretense of being other than an old-fashioned political sinner. He might point out. however, that according to the tenets of his church, confessed sinners, even the worst of them, who have the right faith in their hearts, have a better chance of getting to Heaven than Pharisees. And Mr. Farley is neither...
...print, you know, is what is bought by the demon space-buyers of the agencies and the fat has been none too plentiful of late years. Let me hasten to add, too, that few weeklies in the Northwest have printed much of what is commonly called "sore-toe" advertising, for the very excellent reason that little such space has been offered. Once a weekly newspaper standby, this type of advertising still appears in reduced volume, but within the columns of the "patent insides" [i. e. syndicated pages]. Many a publisher uses it either because of laziness, local news scarcity...