Word: bead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Animals, especially small bead-eyed rodents whose tails must obvious though invisible, are Rackham specialties. He is a man to see that their personalities quite comprehensible, differing from ours only at their extremities where he observes the distinction by bringing their legs and arms out of pantaloons and shirtsleeves with paws and claws instead feet and hands. He makes a muskrat's ear quite as eloquent as unearthly tresses of an undine, rather badly jointed wooden doll is as truly alive to him as the most grizzled of grey old men who have obviously been alive for centuries...
...Bead my surname as it meets your...
...Churchill, who has been picked to bead the Red Book Committee, prepared at Browne and Nichols where he was editor-in-chief of the "Spectator", the school magazine. Before this he went to St. Paul Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was the editor of the year book. In Harvard he has been on the Freshman football squad, and the wrestling team...
Passing by eager youngsters, mournful oldsters, bead-eyed Jews and dour Scots, the prisoner brought his dull gaze to rest upon a distinguished figure of some three-score years...
...friend, "If you can shoot it out of my hand, it's yours." After some wrangling, the details of the wager were satisfactorily arranged. Mr. Beres took his place, holding the 50? aloft between thumb and forefinger. His friend put a shell in his shotgun, drew a careful bead. Pow! went the gun. The coin, dented by dozens of buckshot, careered away. . . . With it went the end of Proprietor Beres' thumb...