Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Point 16 every Hungarian girl would be compelled to put on at 12 years of age the sort of iron girdle which jealous Hungarian knights used to lock around their ladies before riding off to the Crusades. In this 20th Century, proposed the Awakened Magyars, "The key to each girl's girdle is to be kept by her father or other competent authority until her marriage contract is signed, when it is to be delivered to the husband...
Many people are inquiring what they ought to do about their money; whether, for instance, they should join the flight of capital to foreign countries. Naturally, they ask for information from Washington, because the key to the future is presumably in the minds of government officials...
...sounded chords which were rich and strong. Beethoven's Pathétique needed more sweep than she could give it. Once in the Bach her right hand was not quite sure what her left hand was doing. But in the Mendelssohn and Chopin her fingers traveled over the keys with such speed and accuracy that the audience rushed forward for the encores to see just how she did it. Few people noticed a bald, dark-skinned little man who sat half-hidden behind the Town Hall organ watching her play her encores with Svengali-like intentness...
Nicknamed "Rabbit" as are small, fast backfield men everywhere, Georgia's 142-Ib. Homer Key sprinted 40 yd. through Vale. Thence he and his brilliant teammates Cy Grant and George Chapman, 200-lb. fullback, worked the ball to the 2-yd. line. Chapman punched over the touchdown. Yale played by far its best football of the season in holding Georgia to that lone touchdown...
Georgia has two racing halfbacks named Homer Key, who weighs only 145 Ib., and Cy Grant, who is high-scorer for the season in the Southeastern Conference. Last week both men slithered and sprinted through Florida, Grant making two touchdowns which boosted his average to better than one per game...