Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used to do all the cooking and clean the house and help me with the washing. He scrubbed and wrung the clothes. Then we used to sit in front of the radio when there was a fight broadcast and hug each other when his man was winning. . +. Oh, he was a fine boy. He wouldn't hurt anyone. . . . Just mischievous...
...will do to show the poignant lyricism with which Mr. Grange has inspired his biographer: "The poetry of the looming hills was gone, but in its stead there came a wider outlook across the wide plains of Illinois," writes Mr. Braden, smiling mistily through the tears that have been wrung from him by the narration of how the Grange family moved west...
...Vice Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey were on hand at Victoria Station to congratulate him in the name of the King on the successful issue of his labors. Crowded about him many members of the Cabinet, including the genial Winston Churchill, Lord Cave, Lord Cecil and Colonel Amery. As they wrung his hand, they noted that the returning diplomatic hero had for once chosen to appear publicly in a crinkled grey lounge suit instead of being austerely and formally attired as is his usual custom. Mrs. Chamberlain, who had accompanied her husband to Locarno, was all but overwhelmed with flowers...
...morals of the Methodist Episcopal church is officially aghast at the wholesale introduction of taxi drivers' vocabulary into the theatre. Although the board of temperance, etc. as given above, quotes no examples to lend point to its protests, one can easily imagine the identity of the plays which have wrung its collective heart; particularly since Mayor Curley has recently taken it upon himself to disinfect the Boston production of "What Price Glory." The Methodist organization further makes a prediction which is gloomy or heartening, according to the hearer's previous prejudice: namely, that the coming New York theatrical season will...
Acting Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis and some 10,000 unofficial persons, wrung and tortured by the intensity of the spectacle they had witnessed, were heartened by seeing William Johnston, a weaker player than Tilden, walk over Borotra, an abler player than Lacoste, with the loss of only five games in three sets. Lacoste's inferiority to his teammate was further exhibited in the doubles next day. Borotra, quick at getting to the net, was not so quick as either Richards or Williams but, once there, he was forced to oppose sniping by himself, for little Lacoste was nowhere...