Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would agree to any reform that was suggested, then evade it on a technicality. With typical boldness, Douglas decided that his best defense against the Exchange's kick was an offense: he bluntly offered it a choice between self-reform or SEC's taking over lock, stock & barrel...
...once in the kitchen, ready to operate, "Pop" was content. While the instruments boiled, he tried to josh the patient into feeling as confident as he did, sometimes had them offering to sharpen his tools. When one kitchen was too small, he set up his plank-&-barrel operating table under an apple tree. But despite these primitive conditions, says Hertzler, post-operative infections were not more frequent than in modern hospitals. The secret of successful operations, says Hertzler, is not a fancy operating room but thorough knowledge of anatomy and speed. In his own clinic, built with many a headache...
TIME had best drop any pretense at impartiality if it continues to feature such photographic abortions which, indicative of neither character nor appearance, should be consigned to the darkroom trash barrel rather than to the printing press...
Freuchen went after a good living, but he continued to like freedom and excitement. Confinement and routine cramped him like a vest several sizes too small for his barrel chest. As editor of his in-laws' magazine, forced to compromise between literature and margarine sales, he tore out his beard by the fistful. As a landowner he relieved the baronial monotony by inviting troops of guests, among them a radical poet who worked for the revolution by urging wealthy landowners to commit suicide...
Girl in the Street (Gaumont British). Last cinema appearance in the U. S. of blonde British Cinemactress Anna Neagle was in the regal weeds of the Widow of Windsor. This time she sets out in Romany raiment beside a barrel organ, soon warbles her way up in the world. Far too grim and determined a gamine for this two-dimensional story, vaunted Actress Neagle succeeds largely in proving that even she can make...