Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straightaway across the field both leaders lengthened out, Bingham pressing closely the flashing spikes of Meredith. At the last turn, the Harvard man was on the outside, breathing at Meredith's elbow...
Humming a little tune, Governor Johnston received the petition and read it through. Mrs. Hammonds stood at his elbow listening, then moved briskly back to her desk. Governor Johnston frowned at the incomplete list of signatures and said: "This is peculiar conduct for men who claim to be in good faith. . . . Well, boys, I'm much obliged to you and I'll look it over...
...appearance of the elevator starter that he allowed himself to be cajoled by friends into accepting a lift. "Let me out at the 16th floor, please," he said. With amazement and a shock of terror, he watched the operator press a little button on a switchboard at his elbow. As other passengers entered the polished car, the operator pressed a button for each, corresponding to the designated floor. Finally, at a gesture from the starter, the operator touched a lever within the car, causing the outside doors to shut. Without delay, the car drifted upward at the rate...
...window. Famous and courtly figures, so long kenneled in their small dark house, peered over the shoulder of the reader; he saw them but his eyes continued their hesitating journey from left to right over the pages that were like a thin maze. A fashionable lady bowed at his elbow; Voltaire took snuff and made a face behind him. At last James Boswell Talbot gathered his ancestor's writings and put them back into the ebony...
...increased budget for the Union library is gratifying, for the combination to be found there of a complete collection of books at one elbow and an ash tray at the other is as much an aid to civilized study as the restaurant may be to meals...