Word: flutter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four of the birds then streaked through the aperture of the great orange-peel doors. Outside, two of them (Miss Macon & Miss Georgia) detached themselves from the rest, bent a course for Macon 500 mi. away. The others, veterans of the christening of the Akron in 1931, had to flutter only three miles to the coops of Tire Builder Frank Eisentraut on the north side of town and were home in five minutes. However, 14 of the Eisentraut flock disgraced themselves by choosing comfortable perches among the lofty girders of the dock, where they remained until the next...
Helen Keller in a syndicated story told of meeting Writer George Bernard Shaw in Lady Astor's London drawing-room. Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap. When he came, she groped out her hand, felt a hand "bristling with egotism" take it slackly. She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor...
...Walsh's cries sent the porter scurrying for Conductor Herbert Weathersbee who rushed through seven Pullmans to reach the drawing room. He held the Senator's wrist, felt his heart's final flutter. Dr. Richard J. Costello of Cambridge, Mass., who was a passenger in the same car, pronounced Senator Walsh dead. A priest was routed out of his berth to administer conditional absolution and the sacrament of extreme unction. At Wilson. N. C., Dr. Malry Alfred Pittman boarded the train, gave a sedative to hysterical Mrs. Walsh, had her and her husband's body removed...
There was a clatter of iron hooves over the London cobbles, a flutter of knightly plumes under the royal gates, and the commoners of London, "the poor mechanicals" of the poet, ran out from their shops and gaped down the street at Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex come from the Irish bogs to make his peace with Elizabeth. The noble earl's visit was impelled more by ardor than discretion, so the old chronicle hath it, for it was early morning and the queen was not in the parlor. Elizabeth received her favorite coldly, and Essex retired...
...Manhattan last week Subway Motorman Fred Floodgate had shut off his power and was coasting his northbound express into the West noth Street station when he caught a blurred glimpse of a slim, blonde woman poised on the edge of the platform. The next instant there was a downward flutter of a black-and-tan dress. Motorman Floodgate's hand stiffened on the emergency brake control. Clamped wheels shrieked. The train slid 50 ft. before stopping. Ten minutes later police gathered from the tracks the bloody remains of Elsie Green, 38. Her purse on the platform contained 55¢. A clerk...