Word: halt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fall from Trojan and Hellenic lips in his literary surprise. Once a breeze ruffled the music. Unruffled himself, Pianist Erskine caught the sheets and proceeded without a hitch. Once, to the dismay of the accompanying violins, the piano made an unexpected departure from the score, necessitating a momentary halt. "My fault," apologized the professor gravely, and resumed the cadenza. Prolonged applause honored this coolness as much as the technical skill, but loud cries of "Encore, Erskine!" did not distract the whimsical professor from his next business of moment-smoking a backstage cigaret...
Sirs: It is high time that someone call a halt to these self-appointed representatives of nations! I read Mr. Karl Busch's letter with growing abhorrence. . . . "We Germans"?where does he get that way? What he means is, "I, Karl Busch...
...sought for below the realm of the super natural. In fact the baskets had been stopped the night before by the two young scientists who are gathering data on them. A small kink in the wire near the nail from which it hangs had been enough to halt the gyrations of the delicately balanced baskets...
...flying machine" (London Times), and lurched into a neighbor's hilly oatfield. Horses shied, dogs barked, boys yelled, slaves giggled as the burly 22-year-old inventor and his clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. Farmer Ruff, owner of the oats, called a halt; he thought his grain was being thrashed standing. But a local politician rode up and invited McCormick upon his land. There the contraption reaped six acres in half a day-six men's work. Young McCormick devoted himself to his invention with monastic zeal. He avoided marriage-"Alas, I have other...
Among the latest volumes of verse published by Mr. Hillyer are "The Hills Give Promise", "The Coming Forth of Day", and "The Halt in the Garden...