Word: leverence
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...like to die with my shoes on." he said, sitting down on the bottom step and taking them off. Up the 13 steps to the platform he walked. Then for the first time the crowd learned that Sheriff Thompson could not nerve herself to her job. Fingering the trap lever instead was Arthur ("Daredevil Dick") Hasch, a pensioned Louisville policeman, deputized by Sheriff Thompson. The Sheriff miserably sat in her automobile 50 yd. away. Assistant Hangman Hanna adjusted the noose. Unlike Rapist De Boe, who was permitted to quarrel for an hour with his victim, Negro Bethea had nothing...
...Reid. As Ottmar Mergenthaler lightly tapped out letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched a lever and presented him, hot from the mold, with a solid line of type...
...bank, a $100,000,000 insurance company. It owns its own steamships, coal mines, olive groves, and, with the Scottish Wholesale, the world's biggest tea plantations. It is the No. i buyer of Canadian wheat, the No. 1 British miller, No. 1 shoemaker and second only to Lever Brothers in soapmaking. Its factories turn out everything from corsets to oil cake, from automobiles to saddlery...
...14th floor of Manhattan's Wurlitzer Building one evening last week 15 men and women stepped out of a night school, started down in an elevator. As the car passed the twelfth floor, it picked up abnormal speed. The operator tried to check it with the control lever, failed. Instants later the car smashed into the spring buffers at the bottom of the pit, bounced up again, settled for good with its floor split, its walls and mechanism utterly demolished. Jounced into a screaming jumble on the floor were the passengers, all alive, but two with broken legs, others...
...return for a series of fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished, methodical Painter Millais found it necessary to have an iridescent glass sphere especially blown so that he could copy the tints of a soap bubble. The canvas created a mild artistic scandal when it was sold to Lever Bros. Ltd. for Pear's soap advertising. As such it soon became Sir John Millais' best known work...