Word: bumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...André Maginot, defending his person against the assaults of the enemy. Wallops were given, wallops were taken. M. Maginot proved himself a true warrior, fighting in torn clothes, giving as good as he received. Somewhere there was a sound of torn linen, followed by a big bump ; le marquis de Ludre had been picked up by his collar, which had ungratefully given way with unfortunate results to the dignity and beauty of M. le marquis...
...Wuichet of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, walking below in the summer darkness was startled to hear a voice from the sky say: "Hello below ? Hey, down there?" The most peculiar conversation passed in the dark till the aviator landed on a 100-foot cliff, with scarcely a bump. When his plane came down in a crash it was immediately enveloped in flames. Crowds stood about in morbid curosity and horrified anxiety, helpless to extricate the man they thought buried beneath the wreckage, when Macready suddenly walked among them...
Examples are legion. How many thousands of times has a comedian let a match burn until it singes his fingers? How many million people have laughed at his resulting agitation? In nearly every musical show ever produced one character or another, exit bound, will bump into the wings for comic effect. Hundreds of pairs of comedians have walked with increasing rapidity up and down the stage until one suddenly queries the other: "Who's winning...
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...foolishness about it all--this serious, cold-blooded hunting of a "spook", that appeals to one's sense of the ludicrous. Yet there is a certain reluctance, too, to see an old romantic supposition thus thrown overboard, and "ghaieties, and ghoulies, and things that go bump in the nicht" relegated to the sphere of the harmless. If this goes on much longer, Poe will be regarded as hopelessly mediaeval, and night-time will resolve itself into a mere prosaic absence of daylight, and we shall all be carrying our own outfits of ghost-catchers. The ghost will become as rare...