Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some say he had "a boyishly stern squint"; others proclaim him a practical joker and tell how he once answered his roommate's desire for a drink of water with a glass of kerosene. He is 25, more than six feet tall, rangy, handsome, blond. He knows flying as the barnstormer with a $250 plane and as the chief pilot for the St. Louis-Chicago air mail route. He is a prominent member of the Caterpillar Club, having four times become a butterfly and descended to earth in a parachute. In the Missouri National Guard he earned the rank...
...bareheaded, his children clinging to their mother's hand. Cardinal Mercier smiles forgiveness. Two Red Cross dogs pant patiently. The famed bicycle boy looks ready to ride again. In front of all the Belgians lie the broken fragments of Gothic masonry. Between Belgians and British, lilies at her feet, stands Nurse Edith Cavell with posthumous decorations on her flowing cape...
Judge Elbert Henry Gary, 81, at the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting in Manhattan, related: "A few weeks ago practicing a very foolish thing that I have been accustomed to, I put my feet up on my desk-at a directors' meeting too, while I was thinking-my chair tipped over too far and, of course, I struck the arm of the chair in the very worst place-in the small of the back. Since that time I have not been quite up to par and my nerves were to some extent shocked I think. This morning...
...newspaper story of one Bessie Davis of Brooklyn, who recently "learned to fly an airplane after only 20 minutes' instruction." But Miss Davis had performed no astounding feat-considering the fact that she simply manipulated one set of controls of a dual-controlled plane, 1,000 feet above the ground. She was as safe as a person learning to drive a new Ford on a wide, straight concrete highway in the absence of traffic. If she had attempted to take the plane off the ground or land it, then she might well have encountered difficulties...
There is the joy of shooting up through the clouds on a grey day and suddenly emerging in unexpurgated sunlight. The rarity of the atmosphere begins to be noticeable above 8,000 feet. Breathing becomes slightly more difficult and one's body feels lighter...