Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, one Marie Lenay, soubrette, was dancing with an awkward man. He stepped on her foot. She glared. Again he stumbled over her. She hissed a warning to him. Once more the dolt set his boot upon her slipper. Mile. Lenay drew a knife from her stocking, thrust it into his vitals. Over his prostrate form, while the gendarmes closed around her, she said: "Learn about dancing before you come to me again...
...importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her. But it was left for Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Arch bishop of New York, in his pastoral letter, last Sunday, to mark out the impassable barrier between birth con trol and the law of his Church. "Latterly, into the public eye has been thrust an open propaganda that shocks the moral sense of every true follower of Christ. Christian sentiment against it has found expression in the law of the land forbidding the dissemination of the knowledge of its practices. Yet the downright perversion of human cooperation with the Creator in the propagation...
...Hindenburg was undoubtedly elected not for one definite purpose, but for a variety of reasons: he was the one man whom all Germany respected; his reputation did not hang purely on political triumphs; his name was one to conjure back the former glory of the nation. He was thrust into office by an accidental combination of anti-communistic parties...
...Pedro, passengers on the liner Moerdyk beheld a duel between a huge octopus and a man-eating shark. For nearly an hour, the two writhed together, the shark snapping, plunging, the octopus limaceously twining. At length the octopus thrust a tentacle down the throat of the maneater, at which the latter, vomiting buckets of entrails, expired...
Giovanni Martinelli, tall, straight-featured, with long locks thrust back in waves from his forehead, is the six-foot incarnation of all Latin gallantry. He, many declare, is the only tenor who can play Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca without bringing angry tears to the eyes of disillusioned debutantes. He is now 39 and weight-well-distributed, fortunately -has come to him with his many honors. His repertoire includes virtually the entire operatic works of Verdi, Puccini and the leading modern French composers. His English, unlike that of many of the Italian singers in the U. S., is excellent, his French...