Word: taming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Lyle E. Womack, divorced husband of Flyer Ruth Elder (now Mrs. Walter Camp Jr.); to Ella Bisset, Minneapolis socialite. Said he: "It's a darn sight easier to tame foxes than to tame a woman...
...played a consistently good game for the University team during the season, being defeated only once, and holding second position on the team for the majority of the matches. In some encounters, also, he played at number one. Against Yale, Hill won a victory from Frank Luce, of hockey tame, 6-3, 6-8, 6-2. Coggeshall is a nationally ranking player, and holder of many titles in this country...
...attraction, however, that is worth a whole season of average productions. This is the movie of "All Quiet on the Western Front." It is the most powerful work that the art of the cinema has yet produced. There are action scenes that make previous war films seem tame, and the impressions made by some of its more dramatic moments are nothing less than overwhelming. Readers of the book need not fear a disappointment, for Remarque's story is made even more vividly real through effects that can only be gained by pictorial imagery. No one who has any chance...
Speaking about adventures some of Renarto's are far from tame. He came to this country at the age of fifteen On the night of his arrival he left his shoes on the fire escape: in the morning he had to walk bare-footed to the nearest shoe store. Later when he joined the array, he found out that talking after taps even on Sundays means a stay or two in the guard house The worst of it was that he did not understand the Sergeant the first time and therefore got a double dose...
...camel! The camel!" screamed some of the quick-witted. From the rear of the procession a brave cameleer spurred his loose-lipped beast forward to give the conciliatory bite. Fearful of its ears, the mad elephant fled trumpeting to the river, was eventually rounded up by two workmanlike tame elephants...