Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Simon, carpenter, was warming a pan of broth in the kitchen of a frame house. His wife was sick upstairs; he had come home twice that day from work to give her food. He was expecting the doctor, and hearing a knock on the door he started forward. The sound of more than one pair of boots on the porch made him look out of the window. His yard was full of men. In long white robes they writhed with dismal laughter in the moonlight. They called to him "Come out, Simon." 'My wife's sick," he shouted...
...little progress been made in spirit communication since the Fox sisters first mystified the world by snapping the joints in their toes? Radio broadcasting, in the last twenty years, has advanced to the stage of a loudspeaker in every home; but spirits are still forced to knock timidly on tables and moan through tin trumpets as they have always done. The interest of such clever men as Lodge and Conan-Doyle has been useless. Something must be done about it. The American people will not stand for poor service and antiquated equipment...
...would have been superhuman of red-headed Preston not to lose his temper at Stephen in the Penmarch library right afterwards. The frigid formalities of a "meeting" completed, he drew his pistol and fired. Cordelia, sure in her purpose, was there to knock his arm aside, so Stephen was not hurt, but Preston left Charleston believing in his New England heart that there was blood between him and the Chantrells, his best friends...
...early games of the football season are always hard ones and productive of injuries," said Coach Farrell. "The men have not attained the smooth efficiency of play that comes later in the fall, and carlessness leads to certain injury. A knock that late in the year might do no harm may cause serious injury at this early stage of the game...
...Friedrich Bergius of Heidelberg, Germany, runs a ton of soft coal, or even lignite, through heated chambers and squirts hydrogen gas at the oozing tar that runs from the coal, he gets 140 gallons of heavy oil. About one-third of this consists of aromatic hydrocarbons, suitable for "no knock" motor fuel. The rest is gas oil, lubricating oil, fuel...