Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restaurant, ordered a meal of rice and soup. The cook, one Charley Lee, withdrew to prepare it. To the proprietor, who sat beaming behind his counter, one of the men beckoned with a rolled newspaper; he approached. When he had come to within a yard of the table, the fellow dropped his paper; the other fired. Lee rushed from the kitchen; the murderers were gone, his employer was dead. A bubble of blood from his lips incarnadined the newspaper...
...Spanish shawl, she sang an unaccomplished Spanish love. With eyes, mouth, chin, fingers, feet, she told the story of her song. Then a last tender note half-unsung, she stopped, plucked a flower from her dress, swung across the footlights made as if to throw it to some paunchy fellow, and did not. So everybody laughed after their tears, and Raquel flitted backstage under cover of thunderous applause...
With Arctic winter and its impossible flying weather only a fortnight off, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan and his fellow Arctic-argonauts (TIME, June 22 et seq.) at Etah, Greenland, last week fumed and fretted at fogs and gales which delayed their work of finding west of them, on Ellesmere Island, a suitable spot for a food and fuel way-station between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbard (Axel Heiberg Land), from which advance base they were to make search flights still farther west where fabulous "Crocker Land" may or may not await discovery...
Last week despatches from London announced that Dr. Hartman had a perfected "diving bell," was off with seven fellow-scientists and a secretary, for test drops to the bottom of the Mediterranean. The Krupp works at Essen had built him a steel cylinder guaranteed to resist sea-pressure at 15,000 ft., equipped with magnifying submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable...
...baseball crowd in the U. S. ever roared louder than the record crowd that traveled from far and wide to see the match at Taunton. "Hurrah," they yelled. "Hip, hip, hooray," they cheered. "For he's a jolly good fellow," they sang as they flocked on to the field, crowded the embarrassed cricketer, saw him drink a goblet of champagne...