Word: atop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...souls were homeless. There was no food; what there had been was water-soaked. People lacked water, light, clothing. Great trees, torn up like matchsticks, lay across the roads. Here sagged houses without roofs, there tilted roofs without houses. Ships nestled in once busy streets while homes floated crazily atop a panting ocean. Miami was a damned, insane region from the Ancient Mariner, and the gods were as mad as Coleridge...
...pontoons. As he reached to open the valve, a wrathful wave rushed over him. For a moment he and the pontoon were out of sight, and the next moment the pontoon reappeared unpopulated. There was a frenzy of excitement until the grinning head of the amphibious engineman was spotted atop another wave. He was captured and brought back to the boat. As he stepped aboard he said, "Well, I opened that valve...
...peninsula, he looks out on the gilded bronze statue of St. Michael standing 165 ft. above the waves on the Gothic spire of the fortress-abbey Mont St. Michel; to the south in the harbor of St. Nazaire, he now sees an American doughboy, sword in hand, eagerly poised atop the back of an eagle with graceful, outspread wings...
...have read with the most acute disapprobation an advertisement appearing on p. 31 of TIME, May 24, in which it is suggested that persons who earn a trip to Europe by obtaining subscriptions for TIME may possibly "debauch" themselves "atop Montmartre" when they reach Paris. Permit me to deplore this suggestion and to censure your subscription department for making it with every fibre of my personality...
...trick-dog college; a serious-minded fistic behemoth; the abduction and restoration of his future wife's aunt's parrot; an occasional square meal. The Wodehumorous idiom that created Jeeves, Psmith and their fellows is more agile than ever. It teeters, like a clown on stacked tables, atop absurdities whose sickening crash never comes. It rides the handlebars of logic backwards, reaching its points with convulsing speed and accuracy. It convinces you that Funnyman Wodehouse must be the world's most amusing conversationalist or its sourest nervous wreck...