Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party of Rumanian cadets had been on the local-express. They burst in the station door. One, a telegraphist, seized the Morse key, clicked frantic appeals for help. Within half an hour a wrecking train had steamed up. Meanwhile cadets worked mightily to extract wounded passengers from crumpled wooden cars, some of which had begun to burn...
Down a new little street in the ancient village of Thorpe-le-Soken walked the Lady Byng, last week, with a silver key in her right hand...
...little boys walked on either side, one bearing a basket of bread, the other a basket of coal. At each home in the little street, first on one side, next on the other, front doors opened at the click of the silver key. Then Lady Byng flung into the hallway of each house; first a loaf of fine white bread and next a large and sooty piece of coal...
Purists rejoiced that Viscountess Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe-le-Soken possesses a silver pass key by means of which she may assure herself at any hour that the conduct of her tenants is still above reproach...
...though these be as other East and West, parodox rules today, not Kipling. And implicit within them is that American homogeneity that makes this rendezvous appeal to the pulses of each. The permanence of the effect of Harvard on West Point and West Point on Harvard is no key to the value of this meeting. No such heightening is needed for the healthy contrasting colors that make this a welcome Saturday at Harvard...