Word: wring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tears stood in his soft brown eyes. But his words, bitten off out of the corner of his mouth, were edged with their old-time vehemence. . . . After 20 minutes he slumped back into his chair, weak and exhausted. About him crowded inflationists and anti-inflationists, to wring his small hand, praise his courage...
...State reception. The sub-Cabinet gave the President a good-by dinner at the Mayflower Hotel; he was presented with a desk chair. The Cabinet lingered long over an informal Sunday supper at the White House. A steady stream of G. O. Partisans passed through the executive offices to wring Herbert Hoover's hand a last time. The President took leave of the Republican National Committee in a letter...
...condition rather than the disposition of the U. S. Fleet that makes Big-Navy men wring their hands in despair. Again & again has Secretary of the Navy Adams complained of "our already seriously impaired position relative to other signatories to the naval treaties." Fortnight ago the Navy Department reported to the Senate that 135 ships would have to be built in less than four years to bring the U. S. up to treaty limits. Last week Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced preparation of a naval building bill which would require $600,000,000 in ten years...
...Herriot left the tribune dozens of Deputies sprang from their seats to wring his hand, clap his broad back?but soon afterward the chamber voted 4O2-to-187 to reject the Herriot motion for payment. Amid pandemonium the Premier shouldered his way out of the Chamber, followed by his Cabinet and by so many Deputies that adjournment was expected and some Deputies went home. Instead debate was resumed in the gray dawn and at 6:03 a. m. (while M. Herriot & Cabinet were at the Elysee presenting their resig nations to President Albert Lebrun) the leaderless Chamber voted again, this...
...found steady employment in that cycle of dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room. Looking back on those days, it amuses Actor O'Connell to recall one trick of his that never failed to wring hysterical whoops from his audience: slowly pulling off his pants and flinging them at the chandelier. "After that I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." Unlike the stork, it would appear that boudoir farce has not been dead all these years, just dormant, for the curtain...