Word: hidding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only the tip of his tail was moving when he flattened himself for a precisely accurate spring. Knocking the feathers out of his whiskers, glancing around, he lifted the warm kill in his mouth. Its pretty head dragged stupidly as he picked his way to a cubby hole and hid it. Sheik licked a paw neat, stretched himself, stalked...
...Havre, France, one Joseph Eggermaier, Czechoslovak, tired, raw-footed, hid in a life boat of the French Liner Paris. He had walked the 600 miles from Liege, Belgium; now he would sneak a free eight-hour ride to Plymouth, England. He settled himself and yawned . . . salt air was making him sleepy. . . . He awoke 24 hours later, beyond the ship's stop at Plymouth; was perforce carried to Manhattan, where last week immigration officers turned him back to France...
Bashful charwomen hid their worn shoes beneath modest skirts, balanced frail teacups on large red hands...
...term for a rare disease, a term occupying several lines of newsprint. Mr. Khaldah concentrated, could not pronounce the term but spelled it out correctly. Mr. Swift was informed of the date and place of his father's birth. Dr. Breasted wrote out a sentence in Arabian and hid it. Mr. Khaldah recited it sight unseen. He stood 20 or 30 feet from his marveling audience and drew for them geometrical designs they pictured mentally; uttered correctly combinations of figures in the hundred-thousands; rendered pieces of remembered music. When they departed, not one of the distinguished guests...
...that a British propagandist, not Osman Digna, invented this game, but Colonel Horatio Kitchener (young then) took it seriously. He went after Fuzzy Wuzzy at Handub but a black archer pinked the Colonel in the neck, and the man with the ugly face escaped. For a while he hid in the hills, played a deadly kind of squat tag with all the British troops that came where he was. At last a sly captain named Burges chased him into a cave that had no back door. He was tried for rebellion, sentenced to life imprisonment in a hot cell...