Word: blades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week in Rockford, Miss Vogel told other things she had learned: An Omaha boy, aged 13, after reading and liking Tom Sawyer, had declared: "But yet I think it is one of the worst books for boys in their mature age." Of Evangeline, said a 14-year blade of Quincy, Mass.: "It doesn't seem possible that a girl would walk so many miles for her beau when now a girl wouldn't walk one mile...
...fractions of a centimetre (down to 9.984 m., up to 10.016 m.). In the instrument that receives the multiplex or "scrambled" messages, one circuit is made sensitive to the carrier wave, other circuits to specific modulations thereon; much as the slot of a lock receives a key's blade and the tumblers are touched by the key's teeth...
...curtain, yes, a curtain to the doings"--not of the questing uncle of Gherardi's novel but to that once equally devastating blade, the gay, the cavalier, the verbose Mr. Arlen. A curtain--for at last his brief hour has been strutted on the stage of public fancy. The enfant gate of suburban London, the treasure of America must bow to the inevitable "what and what and then again", retreating with "that lovely lady" and her friends to the shades of an Anglo-Armenian oblivion. Like many even bonnier brethren he must watch the dust collect upon his once bright...
...That Andrew Jackson was a young blade very fond of fighting and swearing. Mr. Moore answered that he did so only in youth, and very little by comparison with other men of his time, that he fought only three duels...
...Manhattan, a Hebrew lean as a knife-blade was introduced to a squat Italian. Instantly the Italian tried to hit the Hebrew in the face. A furious scuffle ensued, continued. Some twelve minutes later a doctor was bending anxiously above the Italian-one Edward Shea of Chicago-while the Hebrew-Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg- remained bantamweight champion of the world. It had been an unusual fight for the reason that Rosenberg, though cannier than his challenger, disdained to employ the artful dodges of science, but traded punches with the wild-eyed, bloody-mouthed, berserk Shea. Many who saw the little...