Word: footless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dint of his five sons' persistent labors, Benjamin masters a wretched twitch-sown farm, only to deed it away to the boys' flighty stepmother. This village wench marries, after Benjamin's death, a footless tippler who turns the five brothers out and lets the farm go to ruin. In years past four of the brothers had tried to escape the farm, two for Canada, one for the glamorous army, and another to marry his Jessie, but the soil lured them back. Exiled now, their only thought was to return, and at the first opportunity they bought...
...exhausted by interminable footless fighting, harried by powerful enemies and treacherous vassals, resolves to sacrifice his questionable independence for peace and pleasure in the palace of some mightier overlord. He chooses Ung Khan as his most likely protector, agrees to surrender two thirds of his revenue, and to live at the court of Caracorom with 2,000 fighting men ready for emergencies. In return he is guaranteed his safety, and the integrity of his kingdom...
Meanwhile, in cooler cities, football followers hung up their raccoon coats and spent Saturday afternoon picking All-Americans. It was a footless search, for the "official" All-American is not so quickly chosen nor so authentically "official" as in the days of Walter Camp. There are 300 colleges playing football, and every campus chants for its heroes. The best that can be done is to compare the All-American teams that happen into print...
...path of life, the tragedy would be altogether too near the heart of the city to be called a suburb, were if not for the fact that this hand picked chorus from the far side of the Sahara proved conclusively that when art reaches pedal extremities it is not footless. In fact one would do well to spend an evening, two dollars and a half, and three quarters of a tumbler full of energy at Cattle Hall watching the annual December destruction of the Histrionic Club. As the old sea dog said when his child was born...
...those footless cases which a dash of sex appeal and a tang of alcohol make so palatable for the public?a typical Broadway morsel?that was dished up last week in a Federal court in Manhattan. The protagonists were the Government (in the person of U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner) and Earl Carroll, theatrical pander. The issue: to convict Mr. Carroll of perjury in sworn testimony he gave to two Grand Juries last winter when the Government investigated a Washington's Birthday party given by him in his theatre?a party at which, according to some...