Word: strapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good old-fashioned education" hi Paterson public schools (one of his masters used to beat his hand with a strap until blood ran). Says Dr. Butler: "The present-day notion, that an infant must be permitted and encouraged to explore the universe for himself . . . had, fortunately, not yet raised its preposterous head. In my time children were really educated." Dr. Butler ruefully records that he stood third in his high-school graduating class, below a grocer's daughter and a contractor...
...Japan and China is little affected. . . . Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started. The unexpectedly early victory at Hankow should be attributed to the august virtues of His Imperial Majesty, and at the same time to the brave efforts of the Japanese forces which participated. After victory, tighten your helmet strap...
...pianist, like all good ragtime composers, Harney appeared in Manhattan in 1896, thumping the keys at Tony Pastor's 14th-Street Variety Theatre while a tiny Negro named Strap Heel danced the buck-and-wing. At the time Harney's violently syncopated pianism, which according to contemporaries "could be heard for blocks around," was regarded as a passing fad. But it caught on so rapidly that by 1897 Harney was encouraged to publish his Rag-Time Instructor, first pedagogical treatise on the art of ragtime, now a collector's item...
...acquired five paintings by contemporary U. S. painters, all of them well known. Bought before the paint was dry on it in Eugene Speicher's studio at Woodstock, N. Y. was Blue Necklace, a quietly florid and sexual portrait of a girl in a pink bodice, one shoulder strap fallen, brooding over a letter held in her open lap. Others: a sentimental painting of a young girl sewing by Frederick C. Frieseke. a vivid luminosity with figure by Alexander Brook, a nude by Guy Pène du Bois and a swirling composition called Stampeding Bulls by Jon Corbino...
...preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule's belly strap. Then Willie Sue Blagden got four solid clouts. Governor Futrell and the local sheriff protested that the Weems "funeral" was only propaganda, that Frank Weems was still alive, but their pooh-poohing paled beside a published photograph of Willie Sue Blagden exposing a plump thigh bearing a large black & blue mark...