Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately, Hogarth still had his enemies. Two in particular-an ex-priest and a cockney murderer-had peculiar talents for turning up at the wrong time in the wrong places. At the height of his triumph, the murderer stabbed him and the ex-priest contrived to sink most of his floating forts. Hogarth fled for his life, his power tumbling in ruins about his head...
With the fliers out of sight, the crowd watched the west. The broadcaster droned: "Here comes Mills." Then: "Here comes Skeel. Note his speed." Down from a great height swooped the plane, catapulting toward the starting line in a wide arc. Then tragedy. The machine was seen to disintegrate, like a cardboard toy. A wing broke completely away, fluttered down. The crippled fuselage spun, dove precipitately behind a row of trees. Flying sticks and clods of earth, visible to the crowd a mile and a half away, told of Skeel's instant death-the first fatality in all five...
...station is located across the river, southwest of the "loop" or business district. Its main waiting room contains 26,500 sq. ft.; other waiting rooms account for 22,000 sq. ft. more. The building proper is eight stories in height; in addition to the general offices of the Pennsylvania and the Milwaukee, the structure will house a dining room, lunch counter, cafeteria, tea room, barber shop, beauty parlor, fruit stand, tobacco shop, book store-and last but not least, a two-cell jail, a chapel and a hospital...
...height of the applause, comes a trivial issue and Parliament, which withstood the acid test of the Russian treaty, is dissolved by a drop of water. MacDonald modestly bows, acknowledges defeat, and hastens to blame the general election upon the Liberals; for all parties know that an election at the present time is distasteful to the people...
...campaign the torchlight procession seems to have reached the height of its popularity. Although it has figured in all the Presidential elections up to 1920 it has never been entered upon with the same enthusiasm as marked its execution in days gone by It seems to have joined the ranks, of Harvard traditions that now are numbered only by the epitaph...