Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping grandmother, a hail-girl-well-met, etc., etc. They are all looking for a fellow surnamed The Octopus who hangs humans by the feet when he hears the tick of a clock. They go down into the vault of the lighthouse where an octopus tickles Mr. Kelly between his shivering ribs while nobody is looking. Upstairs again for the third act, everybody confesses to be a detective. But one, The Octopus...
Rolf Sinerton, a Norwegian living in Montreal, traveled 112 feet off a snowbank, won the ski-jumping championship of Canada...
...confirm it. I was in Ceylon, digging for elephant bones and tusks in sand which was packed so hard it had almost the consistency of rock. So far as could be observed that layer of sand had been lying there a thousand years. In this impermeable mass about two feet beneath the surface, we uncovered a frog [sic, sic] which was absolutely entombed there. Fortunately it escaped spades and pickaxes and was lifted out alive. Its stomach was full of water which it ejected and then hopped away...
...know more about horned toads, I reckon, than any man in Texas, both inside and out. I have mounted everything from a humming bird to a Texas steer with horns eight feet long from...
...duties, to admire the antics of these prototypes. Instead, as if stimulated by such a public display of good breeding, they spent a week of exceptional and most engrossing activity. Aside from their regular business-that of burying bones, digging up bones, barking at automobiles, scaring children, sniffing at feet or tree trunks, running in circles, sitting on their hind legs, biting hobos, etc. etc., certain individual dogs performed astonishing and varied feats...