Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Force. Force is necessary for children who spit out their food or those who vomit at will. Give such a child a small amount of the food; if he vomits give him more; continue until he keeps the food down. When he learns that you know his trick, he will stop. Begin this method when the baby takes his first spoonful of cereal...
...village was not too small to hold a great and terrible hate. There lived one Grachev, a moujik (peasant), consumed with bitterness. He alleged that, when the land had been distributed several years ago, his fellow peasants had "played him a trick." He, irate, was prompt to swear vengeance...
...waiting for Broker Donahue's bid. "One diamond," whispered Donahue. "Three spades," said Neutz. "Four diamonds," said Donahue, "five . . . six . . . seven." But Neutz, holding ace, king, queen, jack and four low spades, and supported by his partner, went up to seven spades, began to play them. On every trick Donahue discarded a diamond; he had held 13 of them, a perfect hand-many times rarer than a hole in one at golf. The stupidity of his initial bid robbed him of a chance...
...temple, said that sharp little prophet, Malachi. Had any seeker for the Lord pushed his way through the crowd of 8,000-odd witnesses and entered an uptown church in Manhattan, last week, he would have found refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid. Such were the festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized by one Dr, Christian F. Reisner, who raised...
...Kirkwood dubbed, pulled, could not get pinward at all for the boisterous galoots that were watching and calling for his "trick" shots...