Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girls. . . . More and more girls, for the joy they get out of the organization, because in scouting they may help themselves instead of having things thrust upon them. It is what they put into the organization that makes them happy. That is true of everything in life...
Wherefore, with an eye to feeling out the attitude of that body, the college proconsuls of Socialism have decided not to waste their valuable cohorts on what might not cause a riot anyhow, and only one of their number will be delegated to thrust the radical nunciamento into the hands of all who pass...
...Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, now a grizzled, crop-lipped campaigner with 25 years' service in the Conservative ranks, was led last week to the Chair of the House of Commons. Solemnly following the ritual, Capt. Fitzroy made "formal gestures of protest,'' shook his head, thrust out his arms pleadingly. Then, still in ritual, he abandoned formal gestures, sat upon the chair, and became for the second time and by unanimous vote, Speaker of the House of Commons, First Commoner of the Realm. As such he must wear periwig and gown at all meetings of Parliament...
...nice flavor. More than half of it is silent, and the long stretches of agreeable, unlikely comic action, punctuated with subtitles, remind you how well the movies used to get along without the sound device. Plumber Jack Mulhall is proud of being a plumber; his theatrical personality is thrust on him by the imaginative girls he meets at Bradley Beach. Best shot: Mulhall showing he is an actor by reciting "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." The Wheel of Life (Paramount). To appear in this film Richard Dix, usually properly shaved, grew one of those brief mustaches which indicate...
...Interstate Commerce Commission was devoted to protest against absorption by the B. & O. to establishing the Wabash as a potent independent. The Western Maryland was also included in the B. & O. scheme and is at present under B. & O. control. Inclusion of the Wheeling & Lake Erie was a thrust against the Van Sweringens. Inclusion of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia would wreck trunk-line plans of the Taplins. A good example of the confusion attendant upon Wabash plan is the fact that the Van Sweringens and the Taplins, long feudists, were united in protest against...