Word: corkscrewed
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...Havana when: "Pilot Hawkins, to avoid an angry black cloud, veered to port. Then, to our amazement, there quickly dropped from the north end of the storm cloud a thin writhing black column of a waterspout. In a few seconds, as we watched, it grew into a black, whirling corkscrew at least 600 feet high and probably 50 feet or more in diameter. ... As it grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising in clouds from where its tail lashed the sea. Yet its writhing edges were clean...
...James Henri la Baily de la Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, squealed with delight at a present in her steamer stateroom. Within a gilt-edged, blue-ribboned box, wreathed with laurel, lay an antique bottle labelled: Bethlehem Rye, Guaranteed Twenty Years Old. She sent for charged water, ice, glasses, corkscrew. She held the bottle to the light to admire its tawny contents. The bottle was empty...
...reaching would be some of the effects of his statement. The idea of non-enforcement of the constitution affects different people in different degrees. Some write their congressman, some tell the family what Bernard McFadden said about it this morning, and some are merely reminded to get a new corkscrew next time they are down in the market district. But to the members of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement the message of Senator Borah is a clarion call. And so they prayed that Mayor Walker might have "a sense of personal responsibility" and that President Coolidge might...
...little conductor, whose costume started off well with a braided cap and ended rather pitifully in shabby carpet slippers." He then glimpsed "an efficient, snappy-looking officer" of Marshal Feng's army seated on a bench in a special compartment, and was called in when the officer needed a corkscrew. Thereafter they sat toping and smoking for some time, although "of course [Mr. Morley was] not unfamiliar with the tradition that the soldiers of the 'Christian General' neither smoke nor drink...
...thinker" under twenty-five years of age. It contains some things we have wanted to say ourself for a long time, but have never quite dared to for fear of being called crude. "An Oxford Symbol"--we may as well tell you beforehand that it is a corkscrew--is done in the best Morley style; Dame Quickly and Glssing add their bit; and the chapter on "Sir Kenelm Digby" is a rare delight, with its recipes and its appreciation of old quaintness. . We should like, for our own part, to see more of Sir Kenelm in the future...