Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...market place at Tsinanfu and marveled. Bent over a barrel was the Honorable Wu Cha-ding, Commissioner of the Wenchang Bureau of Public Safety. Standing over him was a strong-armed soldier with a broad wooden paddle in his hand who lustily belabored Mr. Wu's quivering bottom...
...looked out the portholes. They saw "steel-like fangs of ice moving stealthily through the water, which changes in color . . . throughout the entire range of blues." They saw prawn-like and cock-roach-shaped creatures, sea fleas, medusa jelly fish. Through compression chambers they took samples of water and bottom sludge...
...Brown Mehard Griffith, of Sewickley. Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, was found dead yesterday morning at the bottom of an airshaft in the Somerset Hotel, 150 West Forty-seventh Street. Although police investigated the possibility that she might have jumped through the window of her room on the fourth floor, they believed later that she may have fallen over the sill of the airshaft while moving about her room in the early morning...
...police officer stopped the car momentarily, then beckoned it on. Sir Henry and the officer nodded cordially. It was his son George, a Cambridge undergraduate, who is working as a constable during his vacation. Explained his father: "Start in Scotland Yard? Certainly not! He is starting at the bottom as an ordinary uniformed policeman...
...known that while the report was being prepared Banker Moreau banged the table in his best French manner and swore that he would return to Paris immediately if the question of Reparations was brought up. Yet the spidery signature of Banker Moreau appeared in its due place on the bottom of the report when it was signed. Back in Paris, Banker Moreau was called immediately to confer with government heads, had nothing to say to the Press beyond remarking plaintively...