Word: thrustings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mixture of phosphorus and cheese (any sharp cheese would suffice). The light from the phosphorus and the tantalizing odor accompanying it would invariably attract any whifflepoofs lingering beneath us. We hovered over the hole, with rubber bands stretched out in our fingers. As soon as a whifflepoof would thrust his inquiring snout through the hole, we would quickly snare him with a rubber band, encircling his gills with it. He would soon choke, and we were then able to draw him up through the hole...
...Jack Dempsey was recuperating from an appendectomy, Babe Ruth was looking for a manager's job in the major leagues, Bobby Jones was an aging, paunchy Atlanta lawyer, Paavo Nurmi was managing a tidy fortune invested in Finnish real estate. Having accepted a back seat or had it thrust upon them, none of these once-great sporting figures was much more than a brave memory...
...tarpaulin. Why this has been done no Ford employe knows for sure, but most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole in the ground in Menlo Park, N. J., where Thomas A. Edison and his helpers threw their laboratory junk...
...undersigned, representing official Republicans of Michigan . . . unanimous belief . . . Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg should be drafted for the next Republican Presidential nomination." Thus last week the Governor, President of the State Senate, Speaker of the House and Republican elective officials at Lansing thrust Michigan's sartorially perfect Senator into the Presidential race from which he has ostentatiously and repeatedly withheld himself. Senator Vandenberg, flush with success after beating down the Florida Ship Canal Bill, said he was "grateful." Manhattan's Michigan-born racket buster, Tom Dewey, consistent favorite in the Republican race, who agreed to the Vandenberg endorsement, will...
Warner Bros., which got the jump on the industry by introducing talkies in 1927, has since scored as a pacemaker in gangster films and biographies, is now the spearhead of Hollywood's biographical thrust. Some Warner projects: Paul Muni in The Life of Beethoven, James Cagney in The Story of John Paul Jones, biographies of Knute Rockne, John Dillinger, Hitler-baiting Pastor Martin Niemoller...