Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funny). Thus, the game is won; future generations of Tait undergraduates will be able to hold up their heads before the world, and everybody marries in Junior year. George Olsen's band makes the music?in the pit and on the stage. Zelma O'Neal does an educated black bottom, called the campus drag, which explains why some fellows will never, never leave Tait...
Many is the angler who, having lashed a lake vainly with fly or plug, or plumbed it for empty hours with hook and sinker, has wished that the waters might suddenly be rent or snatched away by some miracle, exposing the bottom and, on it, all the flopping creatures whose presence has not been betrayed by appetite...
...happened. What they knew about the story was this: A big U. S. battleship, the Maine, had rested in the harbor of Havana and there, one soft evening, when the captain was on shore, a greasy Spaniard had externally applied explosives, which had blown a hole through her bottom and had driven her keel upward through her deck. Most of the sailors, 258 of them, and two of the officers had been killed. In Washington, men in frock coats sat around long tables and talked into a blue haze of cigar smoke. Ambassadors called on one another and chatted over...
Last week the men came. John Early scrambled down to the bottom of a little ravine, snarling and mumbling as voices and footfalls came closer. Finally, surrounded by defeat, he gave a cry. Cursing and weeping, he threw down his gun. Officers talked in soothing tones, and then, because he refused to walk, dragged John Early to a car in which he must begin the journey back to a hated house, full of despairing creatures, a sad asylum...
...miles had recorded nothing. A tidal wave? No wall of water had been visible on the surface. Many hours later a northward moving hurricane did bang that part of the Atlantic into a colossal lather, but what manner of hurricane forerunner would travel invisibly beneath the surface? A convulsive bottom current? A ponderous flotilla of mad leviathans? A freak pelagic tide-rip seething in the depths as masses of the Atlantic changed position...