Word: stroked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker 179. That was the places my shop. Thanks you entered insides purchase me this time." Cosmopolites had seen the same sort of thing done by fawning Frenchmen in foreign lands-the employment of pidgin-English to disarm prospective customers-but Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian spaghetti, Swedish locomotives ("Ay bane one strong feller"), Negress pancake flour ("Hump yo'se'f, boy! Pick up yo' knife...
Died. John Fairbanks, 43, brother of Douglas Fairbanks and General Manager of the Douglas Fairbanks Picture Corp.; in Hollywood, Calif., of paralytic stroke...
...this one of his "pleasant," plays, had taken advantage of every possible bit of humor--humor of the broadest sort. He doesn't smile at Raina's medieval fancy about the chivalrous knight who gallops up to the enemy on horseback and kills a hundred men with one stroke of its sword instead the laughs long and loud. In the preface the play he says: "I am not convinced that the world is only held together by force of unanimous, strenuous, eloquent, trumpet tongued lying;" and he goes on to make this statement more emphatic Everybody in the play...
Near Strongs, Mich., one Dr. John F. Deadman, veterinarian, talked softly and whistled to a full-grown timber wolf caught in a trap, calmed it, released it, in three days had it so tame he could stroke it, feed it, lift its lips back, baring the fangs...
Nine heavyweight and seven 150 pound crews took to the water from the Newell Boat House yesterday afternoon for their first workout under the new regime. Coach Brown took his men about four miles at a low stroke and paid especial attention to comparing both the crews as a whole, and the individual men. The crews were all as nearly equal in ability as could be arranged. By keeping the nine boats thus. Coach Brown expects to be able to find each man's ability much more easily than by putting all the best men in a single eight. Several...