Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Orchards are his hobby. A few years ago he would climb nimbly up many a tree, personally inspecting branches that might need pruning. Even now, at 73, he ministers to favorite trees from the ground, with a long pruning-saw, much resembling a medieval spear. As he prowls, thus accoutred, around his excessively historic Glamis Castle, romantic persons enjoy fancying that the Earl resembles an early owner of his domain, King Macbeth of Scotland (reigned 1040-57), who, as Shakespeare has told, murdered King Duncan in Glamis Castle...
...chain-papers excused Nominee Hoover on the ground that "there seems to be something about political campaigning that just naturally breeds circumlocution. The roundabout instinct gets into the blood." They cited Nominee Smith...
...brace of minutes. It was twilight when the Zeppelin, her cabin lights aglow, settled to a lower level. Lady Grace Drummond Hay peered from a window, cried, "Hello," waved her hand. The landing crew, 450 in number, grasped the landing lines, slowly drew the ship to the ground. Four years to the day it was since Doctor Eckener landed the Los Angeles in the same place. Straining at the lines the landing crew pulled the ship to a resting-place in the hangar, beside the Los Angeles. It was 5:39 o'clock. One hundred eleven hours had passed since...
Special Shoes. Ground Gripper Stores, Inc. and Kahler Shoe Co. sell special shoes to correct foot ills. They have consolidated with Powers Realty Trust (owner of a shoe factory at Roxbury, Mass.) as Ground Gripper Shoe Co., Inc. They have 103 retail stores in leading U. S. cities and, besides, 1,000 exclusive dealers...
...nine miles in three hours, including a halt of twenty minutes. About ten o'clock, they again halted at Richard's for twenty minutes; and reached the termination of the Worcester turnpike about half past eleven, where they were received by the Norfolk Guards and escorted to the high ground opposite the residence of General H. A. S. Dearborn, where they encamped, and which gave them a full view of Boston...