Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overhead, at intervals, but from their sound it was plain that the wrecked Curtiss racer was invisible from above. Flyer Bettis eyed the downslope of the mountain and started creeping on his three good members, with a limp thing dragging over the windfalls. At clearings he would pull himself erect and hop along from tree to bush, every jolt costing him a groan. At seven o'clock by his watch he heard automobiles, and two hours later he came to a field's edge. Occasionally a car went by, but smashed jaws cannot shout...
...fussy little critics and glib nighthawks. She gives Kim the half-million and Kim anticipates her own Manhattan playhouse, where she can give Ibsen, Hauptmann, Werfel, Schnitzler, Molnar, Chekhov, "Shakespeare, even!" "We'll call it the American Theatre," she cries, noting as she departs that Nola, tall, erect, indomitable on the bridge of the show boat Cotton Blossom, looks "like the River." The Significance. After hearing about show boats from Mr. Winthrop Ames, and rushing into the Midlands to amass properties and backdrops for a panoramic old-American production, Miss Ferber appears to have been so overcome...
...wrist, and the golden bands tinkled their momentary music. Sentiment, he said, had sealed their clasps. He would never take them off. "Here, in tender reverie," wrote the star cor- respondent of a moving picture magazine, "Mr. Valentino bent his head. . . ." Discussing the editorial, the head was erect, the reverie was not tender...
Louisiana has been bubbling lately with gas, natural and political. Permits have been issued to big manufacturers of carbon black to erect plants in the state's rich gasfields. At such plants, millions of cubic feet of natural Louisiana gas have been burned to make shoepolish and other products. Louisianians believe this process is wasteful and, anyway, they want Louisiana gas for Louisiana, and not for "great corporate interests." Responsible for the issuance of the permits, presumably, is onetime governor Jared Y. Sanders, shrewdest of all Louisiana politicians, attorney for the shoepolish magnates. Jared Y. Sanders is now asking...
...grandfathers was Louis Philippe. The House of Windsor (originally Saxe-Coburg und Gotha) pulses with the same blood as his. His father, "Foxy Ferdinand," first Tsar of Bulgaria, "peer of Edward VII among royal diplomats," boldly declared the independence of the principality of Bulgaria in 1908, and proceeded to erect it with consummate skill into the present "little tsardom...