Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon as the Senate convened next day, Senator Robinson resumed, with every parliamentary trick in his bag, his attempts to get the Byrnes hot potato tossed out to cool in committee. But newshawks noted that gruff Joe Robinson was arguing with unaccustomed joviality. He grinned when, each time he asked for unanimous consent, North Carolina's Bailey boomed: 'T object...
...Tell our legionnaires I am following their action hourly. . . . Mussolini." This drew prompt official denial from Rome where it was called "a fake, clumsy trick...
Through the parlor trick he will never lurch...
...picked up this trick as a freshman...
...dean of the Harvard Law School, James M. Landis, is a versatile entertainer. His favorite trick is to sit atop a quart milk bottle with legs extended, reach to the right and pick a match off the floor, to the left for a cigarette, bring them both to his lips and light them without falling off the bottle."--News item...