Word: gait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feat of a non-stop transatlantic passage in a heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond Orteig, has been offering $25,000 to see it duplicated. Lately, in and about Manhattan, there has moved a stalwart, not-very-tall young man with the gait of a college quarterback and a stiff little mustache like a French soldier's. One day last week he dropped in on Mayor Walker and through an interpreter-for the young man is entitled to his mustache, and speaks none but his native language-told his grinning host that...
...forte is her naturalness. She has refused to be dazzled by her position and has gone on being herself. Florence Harding tried to act up to her job and Edith Gait Wilson assumed extra-legal prerogatives; but neither was popular...
...general the nartional industry has kept at a steady gait and seemingly will continue so. The stock market fluctuations did not truly reflect its condition...
...term "hobby horse" is of great antiquity and uncertain origin. It has been used to denote: 1) The "Irish hobby," a breed of small horse trained to an easy gait. 2) The costume worn by a medieval actor to represent both man and horse, and consisting of a framework with a horse's head and tail casing the actor's hips. 3) An early form of bicycle or tricycle. 4) A prostitute. (Webster's New International Dictionary...
...fifth time, Owen Johnson, famed novelist (The Varmint, Stover at Yale, etc.), to the sometime Miss Gertrude H. Bovee of Manhattan, successively the wife of Hugh Mackay and of John A. Le Boutillier, who died in 1924; at Manhattan. Author Johnson's first wife, Miss Mary Gait Stockley of Lake wood, N. J., married him in 1901 and died in 1911. He married a singer, "Mme. Cobina" (Miss Esther Cobb), in 1912, but shortly afterwards they were divorced and he married Miss Cecile Denis de Lagarde, who died in 1918. In 1921 he married Miss Catharine Sayre Burton...