Word: headlong
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...Bronx, N. Y., Rose McMahon, 14, was given 25?, told that she might go to a cinema. Overjoyed, she danced about, shrilled "Whoopee!" Her somnolent father, Thomas McMahon, bade her be still. Again she crowed. Savage, wrathful, Thomas McMahon sprang up, tripped, fell headlong into a china closet, cut his throat, fractured his skull, died...
...Neill excels. His strength is of the great, raw, shaggy kind that Whitman's has. It is soberer, starker and infinitely more glim. But it is no less torrential, savage as it is, with the same energy, heavy with the same profusion and cumulative in the same headlong...
...Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...
...Harvard." Mr. De Casseres forgets that at times he himself is nothing more than a just-mad gelding going through the motions of an aphrodisiacal stallion. But that is the privilege of one whose prose and thought, to twist his own words, "is a boreal rhetoric, a hissing, headlong ecstasy, the passion that coils in verbs and nouns and suddenly leaps forth in an orgasm of adjectives and epithets...
...TIME, May 5). Fortnight ago the Senate passed (66-to-6) the same bill over the protests of President Hoover, Secretary Mellon and General Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau. Theoretically the measure was still a compensation for War disability; practically it was a headlong plunge to pensions for veterans disabled in civil life. Under it a veteran stricken with gout on Dec. 31, 1929 would be compensated equally with a soldier who lost his legs in the first week of fighting. In the debate Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, an A. E. F. veteran who opposed the Bonus, boldly...