Word: twitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Senator Elmer Thomas, who thought his beating of the silver drum last fortnight was largely responsible for this latest twitch of U. S. silver policy: "This move breaks the strangle hold of the world gold bloc and marks the way for a new money system throughout the world. The United States has set the pace. . . . Others will follow our action?or seriously consider doing so. At once they will retain all their silver and go in the market for more...
...plug-ugly bodyguards he rose by private elevator to the office of Governor Oscar Kelly Allen. Up jumped Puppet Allen to surrender his seat and down sat Senator Long at the Governor's desk to take command. On one side of him was a loudspeaker which, by a twitch of the dial, let him hear debates in House or Senate. On the other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long may be mocked as a cheap demagog by the nation-at-large...
Reading eyes grow blurred, skip words and lines. Heads ache, nerves twitch, stomachs misbehave. Students fail in their classes. Motorists and aviators misjudge distances, sometimes fatally. Many a person so afflicted has gone from one eye doctor to another, without relief. He was suffering from no ailment known to ophthalmology...
...mannequin show with a band, girls and dresses. An extraordinary chorus dance in the exotic style of Rockefeller Center Music Hall is done by girls in pastel -spangled, long -trained dresses. They wade, twitch, writhe. The result is effective...
Past summer school belles have acquired great noteriety among incoming Harvard for leaving various femine unmentionables hanging around. These articles are often dangled on the chandeliers as trophies of former triumphs and the tales circulated about them would take the most broad-minded of schoolmarms twitch uneasily. But it is easy to say that one of these Freshman has profited by their example in ten easy lessons. For lately a broken leg cast was found luxuriously occupying an entire bureau draw in Hollis. Some Harvard butterfly had indeed shed its cocoon...