Word: poking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the "Night Before Christmas" (we suppose with apologies to Santa Claus) lacks ingenuity. This is the first vision in Lampy's nightmare. We turn the page and the inconsistency staggers us. Herman's wife, William Tell, Cyrano de Bergerac and something indelicate about women undressing in newspaper headlines, poke the spectator feebly in the ribs but no responsive laugh comes forth, because there is no sense of reality...
...opening of the first stanza set the fast pace that was to prevail during almost the entire game. Little team play figured in either of the opening scores, but neither poke was from midice, and they were both of the variety that look easy from the press box but which look hard from in front of the net. The Crimson sextet was by no means forcing the play at the time. Morrill being bombarded by a barrage of Green drives. Captain Hardy's stick was by far the most effective in the visitors' line-up and twice he found...
...people and their plight - perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture of furious exasperation and profound pity. They must have compacted to make a united effort some day to sting, poke, wheedle, pat and charm all such people out of their bungalow souls into the big bright mansions of life and the world...
...second-string line which is destined to see plenty of action tonight. Dick Scott holds down the center ice position. Scott is a fast, experienced player, and probably the best man on the squad with a poke check. Henry Crosby, one of the regulars on the freshman team last year, plays at right wing on this combination, with Henry Tudor, captain of the yearling outfit of a year ago holding down the other extremity...
...Navy were in the habit of indulging in spectacles, it might well exhibit its efficiency and potency by assembling en masse for a stupendous steam through the Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive...