Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pride across the expanse of Chinese lacquer which separated him from his mate, and the two, meeting, caressed each other with delicate gestures of affection. A hummingbird, with feathers blown in pearl color and crimson, flew from his perch, alighting on the leafy chandelier; the spray that received him bent and swayed and from its largest rose a petal drifted to the floor...
Departing from la Gare St.-Lazare for le Havre, M. Caillaux's glistening bald head bent again and again over the hands of fair admirers...
...curse of the University and the backbone of its moderately high level of instruction. There is a bewildering mass of miscellaneous facts to be mastered which from their very nature can not be too systematically coordinated. The course will provoke enthusiasm from those few who have a decided bent for this sort of thing and from the rest the semi-boredom with which the majority of students always regard a course so conducted as to demand much memorizing at the expense of creative thought...
...with addresses which discussed social control or social order from two points of view. Professor SMITH, in welcoming the students at Columbia, spoke of the need of a large sphere of freedom for the individual. The occasional harm which may result from giving him unhampered liberty to follow his bent is "the price which society must pay for "genius, for character and progress." Dean MARSHALL S. BROWN at New York University on the other hand, put the emphasis on obedience to the lawfully expressed will of the majority...
Mourning thousands stood tense and sorrow-stricken in the rays of the setting sun. All eyes were bent upon impromptu catafalque where lay the body of a young French ex-soldier; his rigid limbs were garmented in white; beside him reposed his "Blue Devil" Tarn O' Shanter. He, Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup competitor, had just been smitten unconscious by a tennis ball rebounding from the racquet of the Australian Gerald Patterson in the fourth set of an international doubles match at Forest Hills, L. I. On the day previous, Patterson had beaten Lacoste in the singles, Borotra...