Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moving out. The second act exhibits the difficulties of unpacking and moving in. In the last act they sell the house. The result suggests that a few capable character actors employed two docile writers to construct a drama in which there would be a part for each. They wring considerable laughter out of dried up situations...
...that after all, humor is limited and minds even of jesters will grow tired. But may we offer a suggestion? It is not wise to make a clock tick backwards. The past cannot be idly conjured up. It would be better, perhaps, to reiterate time-worn subjects, and to wring out mirth from the present at the expense of other colleges, cities, and societies, than to revert to the past, and bring to light only stuffed caricatures...
...first week in December and begins the middle of April. It is at the end of the season that St. Mary's River becomes a veritable hell for mariners, with ice smashing down the river. Sailors go through it, however, at the bidding of their masters zealous to wring a last dollar from transportation. Last week this sailors' hell was frozen over-solid. In the West Neebish Channel, in the Rock Cut and in Mud Lake there were spots where the waters were solid to the channel bottom. Not a ship could pass through. More than one hundred...
Last week's convention of the American Gas Association at Atlantic City, brought forth new gifts which gasmen have learned to wring from their favorite commodity, or which are under way. Gas-Cold. The Consolidated Gas Co. of New York declared that January would behold quantity production of a "foolproof," silent refrigerator without any moving parts,* in which a liquid is kept circulating by a gas flame. At one point in its circuit, the liquid absorbs heat, producing cold. Housewives could see themselves "lighting...
...grinning, roseate man with a shiny hat was one of the first to seize and wring the hands of the tan-faced heroes who soon came ashore from the seaplane and up the Speaker's steps-Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare congratulating Pilot Alan Cobham and a mechanic- upon completing an epic of British aviation, a 28,000-mile round trip to farthest Australia (Melbourne) in an all-British De Havilland. There was a polite telegram from King George...