Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen years have proven too much for its withered neck and tall feathers and now this bird, once honored and looked up to with wonder and awe, lies discarded in some dumping ground, the location of which could not be discovered according to Notman...
...look, for a time, as if the ticket were far wrong. From November, 1919, to May, 1920. Lowden's candidacy gained ground at an impressive pace. Delegates were lined up. Alliances were formed. The campaign had money, organization, and the bright prospect of success to drive it on. By the middle of May Lowden had the promise of more than two hundred delegates on the third ballot, with only Leonard Wood apparently capable of giving him a battle...
...years, made a lugubrious confession. He said: "As a result of four years study of rural conditions, we find that only one-fifth of country people go to church. There are 101,000 town and country churches in America. Two-fifths of them are standing still or losing ground. There are 38,000 rural churches, or 42% of all, which have no pastors...
...Charles C. Davis of Columbus, Ohio, and was not noticed because it also appeared on the face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake driven into the ground 40 feet from where he stood. Duryee was not quite so calm; the crowd seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead of nearly 20 points which he held to the end of the game, beating Duryee 50 to 30, and so winning a diamond studded...
When Anne India had accomplished this much of her purpose, she was privileged one summer night to discover Rex sprawled like an inksplotch on the moon-white ground. Around him were empty bottles. From the shadows came uncouth sounds of snoring, soggy laughter, foolish crying. The villagers were still debauching; but Rex was dead...