Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flash of gold in the smile, the jaunty salute to the newsgatherers, as Candidate Smith. When the Committee entered, this Candidate, minus fedora and topcoat, put his thumbs in his waistcoat and tilted back in the witness chair with his cigar at a happy angle. The front feet of the chair turned to earth when the questioning began, but the smile remained and the cigar rolled easily about between answers which were not without a certain eager humor. The questions paralleled those asked of Candidate Hoover, though they were put less pressingly, in less finicky detail...
...dislocation. Said he: "I was undressing slowly, the other night, and reading P. G. Wodehouse's humorous story, Jeeves Carries On. I was so absorbed that I did not look to see what I was doing and consequently did not realize that I was putting both feet into one pajama leg. A moment later I stood up, overbalanced, fell to the ground and dislocated my shoulder...
Blackbirds of 1928. Every small-time circuit travels upon the sometimes not so nimble limbs of its tap dancers. These are often the riff-raff of their profession; the finest tap dancer in the world is Bill Robinson, long a spot of interest on Keith's tours. His feet are as quick as a snare drummer's hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time...
...hand seizes an electric switch. Machinery gleams in a maddening rhythm. White-hot balls become bottles. Typewriter keys dance. Faster and faster until noon. A lull. Sausages and beer. Chicken and silver platters. An elephant yawns and wags his tail slowly. Machinery moves again. So do feet, taxicabs, street cars, the arms of traffic officers. There is a suicide at the river, a bubble in the water. Workmen wash their hands and the factory gates roll shut. Rowboats on the river, tennis, golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights and signboards glitter. At the cinema...
...high jump is a Blue event. Harvard will be fortunate to take even one point. Neither P. S. Brown '30 nor F. T. Burgess '30 have done better than five feet nine inches consistently in clearing the bar, while Kaul, Clegg, and Larsen of Yale should all be able to better this mark...