Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Independent on ice, they will neither stand up nor fall down but slide sideways, and some times sit down and propel like a pup with a bite...
...expression "as independent as a hog on ice" is as old as the hills, and refers to live hogs on slippery, frozen ground, and it simply means this, "If you can't stand up you can dog-gone well sit down...
Nearly all prosecution witnesses insisted upon testifying for the defendant. Gist of their stories was that the colonel was a drinker, not a drunkard. At the close of the trial the court itself put Lieut. Smith on the stand and questioned him. His tale was that Colonel Giffin got him to resign, then reneged on a promise to back him in an automobile agency, left him to starve, refused to give him "more" money. Said Lieut. Smith: "If he had handed me a couple of bucks when I went to him for help and said, 'Here, you poor...
...like the way our pilots are stunting over this crowd," said the President-Elect Eduardo Santos last week to War Minister Alberto Pumarejo as they stood on a brilliantly bedight reviewing stand, surrounded by Colombian dignitaries and their wives, watching a review opening Bogotá's great new military field, Campo de Marte...
...once was suspended from the air service for "imprudent flying," decided to finish off with a super-spectacular dive ending in a "half roll" swoop between the two grandstands, barely far enough apart for his plane to have room to pass between. Crash-one wingtip hit the Diplomatic Stand. CRASH -the plane rebounded against the Presidential Stand, burst into flame and sprayed burning gasoline as its propeller slashed human flesh. The whole flaming mass crunched down upon spectators between the stands, slithered 65 feet...