Word: thrustings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dining room of Geneva's Hotel Carlton Park last Monday noon. In theory they were there to attend the League of Nations Council, discuss 19 different subjects. Actually they were there to try to do something about the continuance of Sanctions against Italy, now that Benito Mussolini had thrust the conquest and annexa tion of Ethiopia under their noses as an accomplished fact...
...sport for effeminate weaklings, U. S. fencing has produced surprisingly few top-notch masculine performers. For the past few years a half-dozen men have held a virtual monopoly on U. S. fencing titles. Last week in Manhattan a small clique of enthusiasts watched three of these men parry & thrust their way once more to national amateur championships...
Miss Andre claims that it wasn't Faulkner whom she thrust from the roof but the already dead body of a gangster. She says that Faulkner and she were planning to start life anew in South America and, in order to start from scratch, Faulkner had decided to make the public believe that he had committed suicide; thus the byplay with the gangster's body. The state charges that it was Faulkner's body; Miss Andre holds to her version, and the jury decides...
Like most successful writers, Author Stern likes and approves her successful fellows, contemns her somehow threatening colleagues whose brows are higher: "I would give you the Hundred Most Massive Highbrow Living Writers, the kind who creak and heave as they thrust their shoulders at the wheel, like figures in a frieze of Modern Labour, for what Dorothy Parker can do by not quite using half the strength in her little finger." U. S. readers, who have long recognized Author
Near Aurora, Ore., Farmhand Bert Jeskey heard a boar-like bellowing from the pasture soon after sunrise. Investigating, he found an eight-foot, 800-lb., slithering, legless hulk that reared up on flippers at sight of him and lunged six feet at a thrust. Since the Pudding River was a mile and a half away and the Pacific Ocean 135 miles away by water, Jeskey refused to believe that it was a sea lion until State Police arrived and told him it was famed Sergeant Finnegan of the Oregon State Police...