Word: crash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advances to his hostess, an elderly madam. He lands in the street. . . . Again, his patron tenders him a banquet. He refuses to join in the consumption of bourgeois food and makes his repast on wine from the highboy. His ejection follows a violent attack of temperament during which bottles crash on servants' skulls and the refectory is strewn with pulverized objets...
...number of bases stolen, holding the lead with a half a dozen. Ties with Burns, DeRham, Sullivan and Ullman for the home run lead and with Captain Todd for the sacrifice hit title complete Zarakov's record. Ullman drove a circuit smash into center field on Wednesday to crash into the select group of Crimson home run hitters. g. a.b. r. h. 2b. 3b. h.r. s.h. s.b. Ave. p.o. a. e. Ave. Chase 2b., s.s. 7 13 3 5 2 0 0 1 0 385h 5 10 2 .882 Burns...
...cause. Statisticians opined that the franc is probably still some distance above the critical point of irretrievable decline. They recalled that the pre-War mark* took two years to fall from 48 to the dollar to 184, one year more to slump to 7,350, six more months to crash to 154,000, and a final five months to become invisible...
...college; a serious-minded fistic behemoth; the abduction and restoration of his future wife's aunt's parrot; an occasional square meal. The Wodehumorous idiom that created Jeeves, Psmith and their fellows is more agile than ever. It teeters, like a clown on stacked tables, atop absurdities whose sickening crash never comes. It rides the handlebars of logic backwards, reaching its points with convulsing speed and accuracy. It convinces you that Funnyman Wodehouse must be the world's most amusing conversationalist or its sourest nervous wreck...
...Baby Gar VII slowed down to 40 miles an hour, with intent to turn around a buoy in the Havana open speedboat contest. Just ahead, the speedboat Miss Palm Beach was making the same turn. Splash went a wave slowing up Miss Palm Beach by a split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round in a circle, her rudder jammed hard over. George Wood caught a rope dragging from her, climbed aboard, cut the spark. Then Baby...