Word: cushioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman was telling several of us about the miserable condition of her health. Suddenly I asked her: 'Have you ever tried standing on your head? ... It acts like a charm.' I borrowed a safety pin, fastened the hem of my skirt between my knees, put a cushion on the floor, shot my legs into the air, remained poised for a moment. Said I: 'There, you try that every day, and you won't have lumbago or heart trouble.' . . . And only a fortnight ago, I read in the papers that I had 'unmistakably' kicked...
...across Glebeshire. In its cathedral town of Polchester (by the river, by the sea) in her old, old house in Canon's Yard, sat Mrs. Penethen, respected, kindly widow. She sat by her kitchen fire, her skirt drawn up to her knees, her toes resting on a woolworked cushion. She was to admit to her home that night, against her will and yet somehow with all her heart, a vast foreigner: a simple Swede, a blond HerculesApollo, whose strangely formal card contained the words: Hjalmar Johanson, Gymnastic Instructor. The storm passed in the night. But only with convulsive effort...
...masters of ceremonies followed him, supporting on a cushion the Pahlavi crown, newly fashioned from a monstrous weight of gold and gems to inaugurate the new dynasty. Behind strode other officials, Cabinet members, all bearing other crowns and diadems, which they set beside the throne. Last came a smiling jaunty dare-devil with a light in his eye, striding swiftly in a gorgeous pearl embroidered cape, wearing his habitual military cap adorned with a single aigret. With lithe dignity he seated himself on the Peacock Throne. Quickly he removed his cap. Almost as quickly he placed the Pahlavi crown upon...
...clergy greeted each other amiably. Cardinal Cerretti seated himself; watched President Doumergue hand the red hat to Cardinal Dubois; received from Cardinal Dubois the red hat (which the Papal ablegate, Roman Prince Monte Leon, had rushed with the Papal decree of creation from Rome); knelt on a coronation cushion the République has frugally preserved from monarchial times; felt the soft folds of the cappa magna fall over his shoulders from the hands of his brother cardinal; passed into a makeshift vestry; donned in privacy the complete cardinalitial regalia; stepped out a prince of the Church; accepted felicitations...
Almost at once, a solid cushion of fog robbed them of all observation of drift and ground speed. A powerful gale sprang from the northeast, forced them west, cost them heavily in priceless gasoline. Two hours later, they outran the fog, came out above a solid white of the polar ice, ridged, hummocked, corrugated like a sheet of twisted steel...