Word: poking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your mother wrote to ask if she could come down to see you, you told her what hat to wear, and if her figure was beyond the accepted standard, you suggested postponement. . . . Mr. Winston Churchill invited his old nurse down ... to her intense happiness; she arrived in an old poke bonnet, her figure had attained ample proportions, and Mr. Churchill walked arm-in-arm with her in the street! It is about the nicest thing a Harrow boy has ever done...
Last fall Zivic fought young Davis in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Zivic gave the kid the business. Davis, stung by an alleged thumb-poke in the eye, forgot his professional acquaintanceship with the Marquess of Queensberry, relapsed into a fury of fouls. Disqualified and suspended "for life" (after kicking the referee), the Brownsville bully boy sullenly joined the Army...
...Without a navy," Admiral Jean Fran-gois Darlan once said, quoting Richelieu, "one can neither carry on a war nor profit by a peace." Last week the British Navy rode the Mediterranean and the Italian Navy was afraid to poke a bowsprit out of port. How nice it would be, Benito Mussolini must have thought wistfully, if the three western Mediterranean powers got together somehow and drove the British out of Mare Nostrum...
They don't fit. They are unbecoming. They poke our escorts in the chin or eyes, depending on their, or our, height. They tilt and titter ; you have to be super to carry them off - or be carried...
...Woman's Masonic College of Covington, Ga., now out of existence, where my grandmother received her A.B. degree in 1854, the prescribed uniform was "a sprigged challis" over hoops, with a demure green velvet poke bonnet tied under the chin...