Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harling's Share. "Not jazz at all," some said but they were the ones whose senses were too dull to catch the relentless one-two-three-four beat that pulsed its way through the second act. They had looked for trick instruments, screeches, yowlings, offensive percussives, and there was none of that. But even the untutored ones felt instinctively that then they were hearing the best music of the piece. The first and last acts are mostly dialogue sprinkled here and there with an aria of the light opera type, pretty, trite, unsuitable to snorting drama. The second...
...Democratic Senatorial Candidate George E. Brennan told the Illinois electorate about it, "a story I've never forgotten. "A mother, leaving her children alone for a few minutes, warned them not to stuff beans into their ears or noses. They'd never heard of the trick before. The minute the mother was out of sight they ran for the bean jar. "Human nature doesn't change. Our boys and girls are being ruined with the poison they sell for liquor nowadays. I know of things too terrible to tell-hip liquor at dances, lovers' lanes, roadhouses...
Frail woman cries quickly that she is ill and for that very trick lives longer than man. Hygienist Letitia Denny Fairfield of London* has just completed analysis of 900 consecutive cases of illness among London school teachers. She finds that the women were absent for illness twice as long as were the men of the same occupational groups. The difference was not due to maladies peculiar to women, but included those such as common colds, influenza, lung infections. Nervous diseases incapacitated women three times as much as men. But rheumatism and diseases of the joints affected both sexes in almost...
...While the Sultan stolidly watched an exhibition of Arabian trick riding at the fair, the Franco-Spanish war against Abd-El-Krim, who also claims to be Sultan of Morocco, continued less than 50 miles away...
...Revoke penalties: two tricks for the first revoke; one for each subsequent revoke-the tricks to be taken literally from the offending side's trick-collection at the end of the hand and to be counted in the adversaries' score, for themselves or against the contract, exactly as if taken in play. The offending side may then score the legal reward for its remaining tricks as if it had not revoked. The penalty may be exacted only in actual tricks from the offending side, and not "on paper" in case the offending side's tricks are insufficient...