Word: antics
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...indication that he has understood the signal to back.* Then he throws the locomotive into reverse. If he has a power reverse gear he just turns a little wheel, steam doing the rest. If he has a hand reverse gear he has to push hard and knows that the antic steam may kick the lever and break...
...long-suffering husband dropped dead in his soup plate when she absentmindedly toasted Germany at a dinner in the Russian Embassy. The play finds Clytemnestra, her two antic sons and more sensible daughter inhabiting their villa at Nice, broke. Even the daughter's practical U. S. suitor cannot keep Mrs. Hope from buying on credit everything she fancies, blackmailing the maid out of back wages, formulating grandiose schemes for selling "her poor little home" to an unborn literary club. With a pleasantly insane gleam in her eyes, she falls out with everyone, instantly makes up does housework...
HUXLEY (Aldous) Antic...
...people saw it, paying top prices of $5.50 at the box office, sometimes three times as much from speculators. One man saw it four times. Each time he bought a seat in a box, turned his back on the stage as soon as the curtain went up. Despite this antic, which seemed eccentric to other spectators, the four-time box-sitter meant much more money in the end to Funnyman Wynn than anyone else in the house. For by keeping his ears open, he decided that Ed Wynn was comical even if people could only hear his lisping voice...
...Antic Auburn, Usually price-cuts are bad news to a company. Last week when Auburn Automobile Co. cut $300 to $700 from the prices of its cars. President Errett Lobban Cord cheerily stated it was part of a campaign "to put men to work." Motormen noted that Auburn's low prices are now within $200 of Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth, some $300 below its leading competitors in the $900-$1,000 price class. During the first four months of the year Auburn had 1.1% of the total U. S. passenger car business against 1.6% in the same period...