Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even a Student Vagabond is now and then sorely tempted by the bright lights and dancing figures, so while solar eclipses and state income taxes wend their way through the class room, the Vagabond will drowsily clutch his bottle and enjoy a brief nap in preparation for an evening of relaxation from the strain of being intellectual among the greater immortals. For, although the Pudding show comes every year, it is not always with the brand of music and dancing that accompany the present show. So with the best of intentions he hopes that some kind-mortal will notice...
...Some people pack their suitcases and clutch their tickets days before leaving for the train. President Coolidge, off for Cuba, knew that train time would come without his waiting for it. He passed the week with no outward sign of excitement...
...fell clutch of circumstance...
...wheels go round obediently, the gears between them demand constant nursing. Before the car can run smoothly, these gears must be coaxed from first speed to second, then to third, and in some makes, even into a fourth forward speed. Before they will yield to coaxing, the clutch must be pushed down and let up, the foot accelerator released and pressed down again and the shift lever wiggled about delicately. In addition to causing heavy wear on the parts, all this diddling is a great nuisance to the driver, who in a Utopian state of locomotion would be concerned with...
...said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba's "Open, Sesame" story. Knotting a clutch of treasure in his burnoose, he next chipped a crack in his prison's rose-red sandstone wall, widening it to a passage which brought him out high on the slope above the valley of Petra. . . . The interest of treasure-hunters in his fabulous story was scarcely greater than that...