Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best sellers were mightily of a twitter, last week, at news of new exploits by the author of Revolt in the Desert, famed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence. He, with a modesty not inferior to Lindbergh's, has rejected all the honors and decorations which Britons sought to heap upon him in reward for his success in fomenting an Arabian revolt against Turkey during the War. Last week, after eight years of self-imposed nonentity as a British private, T. E. Lawrence returned to Arabia as a British plenipotentiary and arrived at San'a, the Capital of the Imamate...
Soon Minister of Communications General John Metaxas hurried out to the quake area from Athens. Said he, after surveying Corinth: "Nothing but a heap of ruins remains. No house can be repaired, and structures which still threaten to fall must be pulled down. The material damage amounts to at least 620,000,000 drachmas ($8,000,000)." Fortunately the loss of life was slight, since the population of .Corinth, terrified by preliminary tremors, took refuge in the open before the major quakes began...
...what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' " Mr. Dodgson told them how Alice had followed the white rabbit down a hole in the ground and how she had fallen for a long way until she landed on a heap of sticks and dry leaves, how she had foolishly eaten a cake that said...
...hurtled through Manhattan, ignoring all traffic signals, deaf to the cries of spectators and the reports of the police pistols. At last, thinking he had eluded his pursuers, James Cox stopped his car at the entrance to the Biltmore Hotel, leaped out, tripped on the curb, staggered into a heap on the pavement, and cut his forehead. A policeman leaped upon him, secured a doctor to sew up the cut. The doctor, after a look at James M. Cox Jr., said that he was drunk...
Then back to the road again, on foot, riding the bars, and occasionally even "riding the cushions." In search of-the Jack of Diamonds? Ace of Clubs? More women? Experience of a "heap o' towns" indicates that "the most fastest, mo' freer women" are to be found in New Orleans, where "they give you clothes and liquor an' all the lovin' you want, an' when you go to leave have all sorts grievin' fits ... then writes you most sweetest letters man ever read...