Word: floating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...takes more than a common mind To sink and still to float...
That would have been the best day for Death to have waved a hand at William van Schaick. An investigation proved that despite a record of 40 years' service he had been guilty of criminal neglect in not having useful firehose, staunch lifeboats, life-preservers that would float; for allowing rubbish to collect in the store rooms; for having a crew made up, without apparent exception of yokels, cravens or imbeciles; for not giving this crew fire drills...
...exhibition of Japanese screens done during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries will open in the Fogg Museum tomorrow. About 12 screens will be shown: among them is one specially interesting example of seventeenth century art, showing holiday-makers watching fans float on the Uji River. There is also a screen by Bunrin which is done in pure ink, without colour. Works by Bunrin are hardly available in Japan today as they are esteemed very highly...
...adroit insertion of machina in machina. On the sandy screen of white desert dunes, Zaida causes a newsreel, showing a vast army on the march, to be projected. Not used to this kind of mirage, the Arabs surrender rapidly just before the newsreel begins to make battleships float along the Sahara. The surrender of the Arabs is almost coincidental with the final surrender of Captain Colton to the charms of Bebe Daniels, who, in the role of a female Fairbanks, is by no means uncaptivating...
Further down the Winooski valley, at Waterbury, Vt., martial law was declared. Many a flood freak had occurred. The 300 inmates of an insane asylum escaped. ... A large house with all lights lit floated by at the first flood midnight.*... A crippled farmer nearly starved in his garret. . . . Hearing that Bolton, downstream village, needed food, a Waterbury undertaker furnished coffins to float a raft, which reached Bolton. . . . A rendering (glue, etc.) factory in the Winooski Valley was offered 3,000 carcasses of drowned dairy cows. . . . Excavators were imperiled by a store of dynamite that floated out of a construction camp...