Word: heeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pianist, like all good ragtime composers, Harney appeared in Manhattan in 1896, thumping the keys at Tony Pastor's 14th-Street Variety Theatre while a tiny Negro named Strap Heel danced the buck-and-wing. At the time Harney's violently syncopated pianism, which according to contemporaries "could be heard for blocks around," was regarded as a passing fad. But it caught on so rapidly that by 1897 Harney was encouraged to publish his Rag-Time Instructor, first pedagogical treatise on the art of ragtime, now a collector's item...
...Yordan brought the car to a stop within the practice area on Commonwealth Avenue and suggested that Bernice, with whom the Vagabond was just becoming acquainted, take the helm--or one of them. There was a major reshuffling as Bernice disengaged herself from the heap of girlhood, hooked her heel in the Vagabond's cuff and catapulted into the front seat, to replace Mary who was already nosing down for a landing...
...mechanism is simple-a unit of rotating blades suspended beneath a two-wheel cart at right angles to the row. Each blade backs into the ground heel first as the machine trundles overhead, comes out point last, leaving the loose dirt in the hole but removing the surplus seedlings. Last year Dixie Cultivator Corp. sold 403 one-row choppers at $157.50 each. In 1938 it will turn out 2,500 machines, 60% of the two-row type...
...TIME'S account was accurate to a gnat's heel. You didn't even slip up on any of the neat little phrases that the publicity man naïvely inserted in the copy...
...besieged it. Every time a policeman's blue cap appeared, the Widow Corneuil or one of her sons took a shot at it. Next morning one brave gendarme volunteered to make a last effort to persuade the Widow Corneuil to surrender. Again a shot. He twisted on his heel and dropped dead. The siege continued...