Word: hissing
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Last week, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, skill failed. A rivet leaped through the air, gave a convulsive trout-like twist, dodged the waiting pail, slipped down through the air, gleaming, white hot, toward a Fifth Avenue bus-top. It struck with a hiss upon the back of a silk dress being worn by Helen Frawley, 17. Loiterers watched her being put into a taxicab, rubbed their eyes, gasped, moved away...
...looked ugly. Two Navy seaplanes, flying so high they looked like a pair of mating canvas backs, hummed over the reedy bays, bound for Hampton Roads from Philadelphia. Off New Point Comfort they slanted down. The sky was scowling, muttering. Angry lightnings flickered. The Bay began to hiss and crackle under a heavy downpour. The thunder raised its shouts to a cannonade...
...Play's The Thing?Dramatist Molnar and Actor Blinn conspire to laugh the hiss out of scandal...
...Alger Hiss of Baltimore, Maryland, received the Herbert Parker scholarship. This scholarship was established in 1924 in honor of Herbert Parker '78 and amounts to about $250. The two Class of 1913 scholarships go to Herman Thomas Anstern of New York City, and Jule Elias Stocker of Detroit, Michigan. The Faculty scholarship was awarded to Fredierick William Roy Pride of Portsmouth, Ohio...
...wind staggered about the Concord house, striking at doors, shaking shutters. By its sound you knew that it smelt of melting earth and sticky buds. Inside was a dingy, not unpleasant taint of coke burning in the Franklin grate, and a lingering fragrance of dinner . . . ticking clocks, the reptilian hiss of fire, and without, the scampering wind...