Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glass to their lips in response to the 30 or 40 toasts which they are sure to receive at a large dinner. No such quibbling is tolerated of Swedish males. Norwegians, less formal, usually dispense with "rising to the toast." Danes are adept at putting unwary foreign guests beneath the table by pledging them in Danish cherry brandy-a sweet potation, suitable for heroes...
...city's growth had been more outlandish than Miami-over 250,000 population increase since 1920. No other city had been blessed by the gods like Miami, where millionaires dawdled in blue plashing wavelets beneath azure heavens; where the nation's "400" golfed with royalty until tired, then attended the races for relaxation; where even a mere key lying three miles off the mainland was bought up by men like Carl Fisher (Prestolite) and Harvey Firestone (Akron tireman), transformed into a palmettoed Eden connected with Miami proper by a $1,000,000 causeway over Biscayne Bay. People...
...George Lewis. Recalling a traditional procedure,† he set five loaves adrift, having to guess where to start them as Mrs. Lewis had drowned unseen, while fishing, her empty boat being the only clue. Four loaves floated idly about. One came to a purposeful halt. Grappling beneath the arrested loaf, Sergeant Bushy brought up Mrs. Lewis's body...
...Potent offspring of the Chicago Tribune in the realm of Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlets. Bernarr does not even mention Mr. Hearst's Daily Mirror (also pornographic) in his roster of morning papers- the apparent implication being that such a sheet is beneath the intellect of Evening Graphic readers...
...rebuilt Remington and pound out a few words of greeting to my old friends and, I trust, even more new ones, there wells up within me a very real feeling of emotion. I'm like that. Beneath a rough exterior lurks, and always has lurked a vein of sentiment. Even in those early days back in Shemokin, Pa., they told me I would never get very far because I was such a sentimental cuss. And now look at me--but that is another story...