Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereafter, uncertain whether Portia is "a snake or a rabbit," the wife treats her like someone who knows where the body is buried. Simple-hearted Portia (she had "those eyes that seem to be welcome nowhere") merely tries to figure out what makes these enigmatic grownups tick...
...story-book adventures of the pioneers who crossed the North American prairie wastes in their Conestaga wagons influenced David Hume '40 into priming up his own prairie schooner, a model A flivver of uncertain vintage, for a Christmas holiday jaunt through Canada...
...tenor, Brown, has quiet tastes, plays a little cooncan and setback, mostly just "cheers himself with his family." But stocky Bass Bryant, Second Tenor Davis and Baritone David secretly cherish ambitions to be movie stars. All used to be farmers. Last month Tenor Brown saw his first football game. Uncertain how to behave, he noticed that the other spectators all held their mouths open. So he opened his. Accidentally getting too close to a goal post, he got severely bumped, still carries a bruise or two. Says Tenor Brown: "God help a football game...
Sportswriters agreed that "rugby américain" would never catch on in France because "it was too much like an autobus collision." The part of the game the Parisians liked best was the huddle, "when they gather to cheer . . . before each play." At the opening game confused spectators, uncertain when to cheer, decided after a few plays that the huddle was the logical one. The equally confused U. S. footballers, who-unable to hear their quarterbacks-misunderstood their signals, wondered whether the acoustics would be better in Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux...
...turned from alcohol to bootlegging munitions was indicated by reports 1) that rifles had been received in Spain in cases labeled milk of magnesia; 2) that a McKesson & Robbins official had asked a Bridgeport bank to collect $30,000,000 owed the company for an arms shipment. It remained uncertain whether the missing money had been stolen or whether it had never existed-possibly fictitious profits had been built up merely in order to collect commissions on non-existent sales...