Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preparations for lathering failed to soften the beard at the base. Shaving the upper lip was especially painful, and frequently it brought forth unbidden tears...
...restriction of fishing and prevention of the pollution of waters by dumping of chemicals, factory wastes, etc. Some measures have already been taken by Congress. There is a new law against dumping of oil by oil-burning vessels; drastic restrictions have been placed on the Alaskan salmon fisheries; the upper Mississippi River has been set aside as a breeding ground; a halibut treaty has been signed with Canada...
...bargain such as the Presbyterians demanded. He said nothing, but . . . The rumor started, the rumor spread, the rumor became confident prediction that Dr. Fosdick would cease to grace the lower Fifth Avenue Presbyterian pulpit. Probably, it was said, he would undertake, every Sunday, to go from Union Theological Seminary (upper Manhattan) to the Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, and thus be come successor to Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman Abbott, Newell Dwight Hillis (TIME, Apr. 21). Said Dr. Fosdick by telegram: ". . . WILL MAKE NO STATEMENT UNTIL OFFICIALLY APPROACHED BY AUTHORIZED COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK PRESBYTERY...
...dollars when they really cost twenty. The husband was stupid but he finally caught up with the parade of prevarications. Thereupon he produced a pistol and waved it around for the better part of an act until he had separately threatened everyone in the cast and all but the upper boxes in the audience. Ralph Kellard, as the husband, brought to this part as full an assortment of plain and fancy sound and fury as it is the misfortune of most witnesses to recall. Finally he did not shoot any one at all and took the wife back to their...
...George Wightman, her Olympic doubles partner; nor Eleanor Goss nor Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, other members of the American women's team that went to Wimbledon and Colombes; nor Mayme MacDonald, national clay court champion. Experts scrutinized a lithe figure that appeared from secluded practice courts in upper New York State, recognized Miss Mary K. Browne of California, national champion...