Word: bolts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hipped runagade, no man could hold him; he writhed through seas of grasping moleskin-flints with a twiddle of his buttocks and a flirt of his shinbone. His knee-bolt pumped like an engine piston; his straight arm fell like a Big-Wood tree. Last week, after a summer on ice, he twice manifested himself before his heirophants. First he prepared to take the field against Nebraska, his ancient enemy; secondly he addressed a message to his personal public in the October issue of the American Boy. The message?a three page article on football?was signed with his name...
...mixture of mock solemnity and featherweight irony. That is all there is to Greenery Street-two charming children, Ian and Felicity, finding their love-nest, scrimmaging with bills, terrified of their servants, diffidently "philosophizing." A very lovely elder sister almost gives the story a serious background by trying to bolt from her husband with another man. But her motives are left shadowy, and the situation is only a foil for some rather splendid precentive heroics by Ian. More than a few times will the reader of Greenery Street be moved to gentle but physical mirth...
From the cerulean empyrean* - a bolt. Liberty quivered, stood shaken but still unconquered, undamaged, poised on the golden dome of the Capitol...
...Marysville, Pa., a child sat on a railroad track, played with a stray bolt, heedless of a freight, train which bore down upon it. The engineer jammed on the air brakes, but hisheavy cars had too much momentum; they shoved the engine forward; it could not stop. A fireman, one Bruce Hoffman, leapt from the engine, raced ahead, snatched the child to safety...
Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, born in the village of Wolfshaven in 1797, was, with his brothers, a mountain guide. His country was devastated by Napoleon, then by the insurgent Prussians. His three brothers were killed on a mountain peak by a lightning bolt. Heinrich Steinweg joined the troops of the Duke of Brunswick. He played the bugle. In his knapsack, he carried a jewsharp- an instrument which he found inadequate. He evolved a dulcimer. It was played by striking the strings with little hammers...