Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Ramsay MacDonald, though not a K. G., sat, by right of his Prime Ministry, in a stall next to that once occupied by onetime Knight Wilhelm II of Germany. Keen eyes observed that during the $1,000.000 restoration the banner of the All Highest War Lord was indeed removed, but his plaque remains, still tightly screwed in place...
...success of the blackface pair in broadcast is that they have created a fiction just funny enough to make people want to hear its nightly continuation and not long enough to let them become bored. Served in a lump, the Gosden-Correll humor is less digestible. Amos & Andy stall their cab on Broadway, carry on business as usual in the barnlike headquarters of the Fresh Air Taxi Company in uptown Manhattan. They go to a meeting of the Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables...
...make his first solo. The chins fell agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall, saw it "fall off" on one wing and into what every novice should dread?a tailspin. The motor barked again, and Long Lance pulled out and into a gentle landing. Grinning, Long Lance clambered from his cockpit to face school discipline for his antics. But he was let off with...
...people shouted; Sande tipped his cap. Tannery, the horse that all the Southern sports were betting on, was 13th, and the band played "My Old Kentucky Home." Through the grey tissue of the rain it was hard to see what was happening at the post, but the patent stall-gate the starters were using speeded things up. In a minute the line of horses that had been relaxed and flexible in single file became a tight cordon between the fences, its component parts moving so nearly in unison that for a fraction of a second their movement seemed an illusion...
Famed because of the "window" in her stomach, noted as an object of important research, Jessie became accustomed to sightseers who were taken to her stall and allowed to peek at her punctured flank. Although last month she was moved to a new stall to insure privacy for further tests, Jessie died. Last week, her carcass was disintegrated in a fertilizer factory...