Word: crawled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles R. Apted, '06. . . . The report, current in New York, that the Germans have mined the entire line of French border fortifications, amuses us for some queer reason. It seems so silly, the French sitting in their great concrete bomb-shelters waiting for the war while the Germans quietly crawl under the forts and leave tons upon tons of T.N.T., after which they return to a lusty meal of frankfurts and sauerkraut, the enfants de la patrie firmly ensconced in the palm of their hand. The best-laid schemes, etc., etc., . . . . See you Friday...
Caresses as of snakes that crawl...
...spite of the danger of more explosions, the two young officers wrapped their coats over their heads, plunged straight into the blaze, dragged out Leslie Tower, chief Boeing test pilot and Major Ployer P. Hill, flying chief at Wright Field, both badly burned. The other three occupants managed to crawl out by themselves...
...handsome young Artist Caviedes is no stranger in Madrid either to artists or socialites. A well-off son of a distinguished sculptor, he and his handsome young wife are frequently seen golfing at the country club, lunching at the Ritz. Ever since he was old enough to crawl, Hipolito de Caviedes has scribbled, scrawled, finally painted in his father's studio. Like most other young artists, he shares the current enthusiasm for murals, has done much to decorate his native city since the fall of the monarchy. Equipped with Caviedes murals is not only the Café Fuentelarreyna...
...browrn cigars and not human at all; a man, walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of a ditch in spite of her smashed hip. A first-class massacre of that sort is only a question of scale and numbers...