Word: slung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defensive. With his thin hair rumpled in the breeze, his coat slung on the seat beside him, he kept his Ford rolling on-from a V.F.W. meeting in Pink Hill, to the Daniel Boone celebration in Salisbury (accompanied by Vice President Alben Barkley), to a Lions Club meeting in Albemarle. After every meeting he stepped down from the platform to chat with the crowds, often delayed his schedule because he insisted on stopping off for roadside discussions. When he disappeared during the Wallace strawberry festival last week, his supporters knew just where to find Frank Graham: at the market, talking...
...with the stickier side of Barrie's charm. But for old and young alike, Peter Pan is most fun when it is pure fun. It comes into its own as a gaudy extravaganza about things that suddenly light up, crocodiles that have swallowed alarm clocks, houses that are slung together on the stage, pirates that fight Indians, children that can fly through...
Many recent writers have described and documented the technically perfected destruction that must come with a future war--the fast destruction from a flaring rocket or a low-slung tank, the lingering poison of a radioactive cloud. Professor Albert J. Guerard has undercut these catalogues of killing in "Night Journey," '5 future war by writing about the men who must fight it. He has written a frighteningly plausible story of those men and their...
Jeanette MacDonald is no poor bet as far as talent goes, either. Her voice is warm, as well as on key, and her acting is nicely suited for this sort of musical comedy. In addition, she has other charms which are exhibited through the liberal use of low slung chemises...
Among the items that Grand Rapids figured the public was ready to bid for right away: cork-topped dining-room tables, streamlined rockers, foam-rubber easy chairs, spreading couches and coffee tables slung low enough to fit under modern picture-windows...