Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hulk of the submarine. Commander Dobson cried his orders. Every man on the submarine snapped to obey. The Rome backed water. "Throw me a line!" Water streamed down the open conning tower hatch. Eight men asleep in the torpedo room catapulted from their beds. The wireless operator pressed his key frenziedly. Water, heavy and pitiless, swung open doors, sloughed about carelessly. "For God's sake, throw a line to us!" Six men on duty in the engine room reached for levers, were whirled away by the inrushing torrent. In the choppy waves struggled sailors knocked overboard by the impact...
...customary to give distinguished visitors a key to the city. We have no keys in this State. The latchstring is on the outside, and we are all tickled to death that you pulled...
...they such compelling interest for the world-at-large. At the University of Virginia there is the famed Raven, dedicated to the dark memory of Edgar Allan Poe. At Colgate there are the weird Skull and Scroll, and Gorgon's Head. University of California has its Skull and Key and its Golden Bear. Other famed senior societies: Owl and Serpent (Chicago), Iron Cross (Wisconsin), Skull and Snakes (Leland Stanford), Iron Wedge (Minnesota), Quill and Dagger (Cornell), Innocents (Nebraska), Mystical Seven and Skull and Serpent (Wesleyan...
...game paradise of the world. He knows from personal acquaintance the cave-birds of Trinidad; the crocodiles of Florida and Venezuela; the elephants of Africa and India; the musk ox and his ugly tropical cousin, the water buffalo, which stalks humans. He has collected turtles and their eggs at Key West and mountain goat photographs and horns in the Shoshones. One of the most readable chapters he ever wrote is called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn and Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews at the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan...
...never more were heard of in this life. Others say that fabulous treasures and curiosities are stored within the various cryptic walls, brought there by brethren from high office* or daring adventures- the original Declaration of Independence, the very skull of Napoleon, a wolf shot by Buffalo Bill, a key to the main gate of the Vatican. Wildest of all are the rumors about what is done at the societies' meetings, for these begin twice weekly at seven and often last until four or five in the morning. Some say that naked male Negroes figure...