Word: askew
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...notions he would land at police headquarters. These disheveled inventions are woven into a play, mad enough to fool most of the spectators for much, of the evening. When the hero took the stage and exterminated virtually the entire troupe with revolver shots it was patent that something was askew. Tangles and untangles, it was fairly good...
Soon Senators began to straggle in-some in evening clothes, some with their morning ties askew, some unshaven, many vexed. Senator Hawes of Missouri said that his taxicab had caught on fire, that he had to call a fire engine. Senator Willis of Ohio said that he saw the flag floating over the Senate wing of the Capitol (denoting that the Senate is in session) and so he hurried from the Union Station. Vexed, Senator Reed of Missouri rushed down the aisle, shouted: "This is an inexcusable outrage...
...ERLE B. ASKEW...
...with constant anxiety about hats and the right of way. And the rules quoted above are only some of the milder restrictions. More awe inspiring were the provisions requiring Freshmen to run errands for upperclassmen and giving to the upperclassmen unlimited right of chastisement in case the mission went askew. But sufficient has been said to show the humblest Yale Freshman who walks the campus that he is monarch of all he surveys in comparison with the lot of his unhappy ancestors
...northeast coast toward Pensacola. No more would sport coats and plumed hats" stroll at Hialea Race track. It was gone. No more would dandies strut and women preen in Carl Fisher's fashionable Flamingo Hotel. It was wrecked. Five hundred bodies soaked in the streets, some wretchedly askew under logs, others stretched out peacefully by the Chamber of Commerce. Where had been one mammoth mansion sat a lone bathtub. And ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses...