Word: totting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injun rights were claims to rooms in Stoughton, based on the charter tot the original stoughton Hall, which collapsed in 1871, (This 1695 charter is reproduced below.) Obviously unimpressed by the white man's spelling, the Indians had stayed away in droves; the 1939 assault was the first attempt ever to exercise the Stoughton Hall privilege...
That Midnight Kiss (M-G-M). Producer Joe ("No one's going to get sick or die in my movies") Pasternak is an expert at turning out box-office musicals (Three Daring Daughters, In the Good Old Summertime). His favorite theme is the American dream that the tot on the living-room floor may one day turn out to be another Schnabel or Flagstad. In this case, the American living room is the usual Pasternak plush job, heavily furnished with grand pianos, helpful celebrities and enthusiastic prodigies...
...Roman matron last week overheard her young son's evening prayer. "God bless mother & father," recited the tot, adding on his own, "and save Giuliano from the police...
...stormy one, highlighted by: 1) a tug of war with a string of overaged strongmen (including Primo Camera, Phil ("Swedish Angel") Olafsson, and Man Mountain Dean); 2) an ear-splitting rampage in which Joe reduces the nightclub to kindling; and 3) the lurid rescue of a tot in a nightie from a burning orphanage...
...into Berlin in one day. The crews flew as they had never flown before. The four-engined C-545 and twin-engined R.A.F. Dakotas roared into Tempelhof, Tegel and Gatow airfields at the rate of one a minute. Twenty-four hours and 1,398 trips later, they paused to tot up the score. They had gone way over the top, had flown in 12,940 tons. That was equivalent to the load 22 freight trains might have carried-more than Berlin's West sectors even got by land in a single day before the nine-months-old Russian blockade...