Word: frisk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some small percentage of the uninvited guests systematically frisk the parked automobiles; others aid lost articles in staying lost perpetually, in spite of the efforts of the Lost and Found Department; other little magicians prove that the hand is quicker than the eye when exploring the pockets of the fallen devotees of Bacchus; and still others persist in destroying the pleasure of the game for those who find that one of these soiled ragamuffins has usurped a neighboring seat...
Next to man, the shrewdest enemy of the whale is the thresher shark. Warily the thresher waits until mating time, when whales throw caution to the waves, splash and frisk on the surface, leap over and dive under each other, bumping and slapping in great loving tail-thwacks that can be heard for a mile.* At this time the shark darts tormentingly about the whale's head. When the whale opens his mouth to bite, the shark snaps at his tongue, holds him submerged until drowned. Then, to the anger of whale-lovers, the wasteful shark eats only the tongue...
...each horse would travel at a speed proportionate to its "past performance record" (.0 to 1,000). Then a so-called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were given haphazardly among the horses by a second series of electric motors. Thus any horse might suddenly frisk ahead, outdistancing rivals with a higher starting speed, only to "stumble'' in the middle of the race or "blow up" at the finish...
...Washington in New Hampshire (6293 ft.), still frequented by Cherokee Indians, the new park will be advertised as a rival of Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite. In place of naked peaks it raises up lofty, rolling domes fringed with balsam. Its bears are black instead of grizzled and the deer frisk white tails in place of the western black. For lodgepole pines and wind-torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that one would find in a trip from Georgia to the St. Lawrence-including flourishing chestnuts (now moribund from Pennsylvania north), holly, magnolia, the rare yellowwood, giant hemlocks...
Napoleon bestrode his charger on the original Third Reader coyer, wherein quotations from the Bible were introduced, together with The Old Oaken Bucket and other verse, instructive articles such as "How a Fly Walks on the Ceiling," and the splendid tale of "Harry and His Dog Frisk...