Word: broomsticke
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...Pennsylvania in its birth was a planned society," Bates observes. To his mind Penn was a great political thinker, the Quaker Colony was democracy's brightest hope. While that prurient sadist and hypochondriac, Cotton Mather, was torturing old women for witchcraft in Massachusetts, Penn dismissed a charge of broomstick riding with the remark that there was no law in Pennsylvania against riding on broomsticks. Penn's incredibly dramatic-and in the end tragic-life has nowhere been better told...
...barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference, hooked his stubby broomstick fingers behind, squeezed. Bacigalupi wheezed and bellowed while his breath lasted, then the Angel grabbed him with an inside crotch & lift, slammed him to the mat and pinned him for fall No. 1 in just short of six minutes. Fall No. 2 took only 2:12. Twenty minutes later handlers...
...their own carnival. Up squalid New Basin glides a barge, canopied in sacking, to the wharf at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. Off the barge strides the King of the Zulus, right royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit easy chair on a mule-drawn wagon. Up darktown's Rampart Street whoop King and courtiers, laughing at the whites on the royal...
Among the church's oddities: a font made of a broomstick and a bread bowl; a stained-glass window of dust from precious stones; a window offered to another church by Lotta Crabtree, and refused because she was an actress...
...swank Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.* Invidiously balanced against a paragraph pointing out that Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's fortune was established by his grandfather, the Record reported that James Harvey Gravell started to make a rustproof paint preparation in 1914 with nothing but "a bucket, a broomstick and a good idea," built up a $1,250,000 business with branches in Detroit and Walkerville...