Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner, one Richard Hutchinson. Him Mr. Edison shook warmly by the hand, joined in reminiscent laughter. It was years ago, when Edison was a verdant cub on the telegraph desk of a Boston newspaper, that he was set by his overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back clicked Cub Edison: "Send...
Closely scrutinized, each gleaming adornment was seen to be a golden watch key, graven with fine print and a florid script on the one side, with three stars, a pointing hand and the Greek P B K on the reverse...
...Marine guards were detected in a lapse of duty. Captain Adolphus ruled that one of the men, Corporal Andrew Chantos of Cleveland, should have the benefit of certain doubts as to whether he was at fault at all. He was allowed to go scot free, and Private Clarence Key, sommolent Texan, "convicted of inefficiency and neglect of duty while on post at White Court," was sentenced to one month's confinement, to lose...
...Summoning all his courage, he flung it open. There was no one outside. He returned to bed. An interval of silence; the sound began again. Once more Chin Hin, with cold sweat starting from him, threw open the door; once more he was met by vacancy. He turned his key; almost instantly, the knocking was resumed. Chin Hin, deranged by terror, jumped out of the window...
...Mason's hardy Wisconsin ancestors have rejoiced. They had seen him born, in 1877, at Madison in the state they pioneered, had watched him through the grade schools and into the university, where he studied so well that he was graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key at 21, jumped so high as a stripling Sophomore that he wore a large "W" on his chest for three years, conducted himself so genially that his friends were many, so adroitly that he won a professor's daughter to wife. After some post-graduate work and some teaching at Beloit...