Word: upending
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...easy to see how extreme financial worries could upend all parts of the theatre. With no stable authority and many pretenders, each department tried to get as much of the budget as it could. And all the while Brattle kept its ticket prices...
...dozen busloads of people representatives of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation spent a hot afternoon watching five busloads of swimmers upend themselves for three straight hours at the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday...
...good repair at Vatican City is the world's most elaborate private train. An entire car is devoted to the papal chamber and throne room, with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks of all necessary...
...lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts the faker's delicious dancer (Jobyna Ralston). Latest Lloyd laughables: a "grinning" stork; laundry on a kite string; amorous tree-climbing; a monkey in a man's shoes; synthetic dishwashing; ringtoss with life-preservers to capture the villain, upend him, paddle him ashore with a broom...