Word: limped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bess, fox terrier, went up with her master in an airplane to make her 20th parachute jump. At a height of 1,500 feet she was dropped over the side, swaddled in paraphernalia. She fell swiftly all the way; the parachute did not open. When mechanics approached the limp bundle on the field, they saw ripples under the cloth, saw Bess emerge and lope off toward the hangar where she sleeps...
Booth was allowed to take part in the drill for only 15 minutes. The star Yale back limped considerably and appeared to be rather pale, as a result of being confined to the infirmary since last Thursday. While he was in the dummy scrimmage, he called signals and ran with the other backs in two or three plays. If Booth is used at all against Harvard, it will probably be for only one period. Head Coach Stevens stated that Booth's injury, a torn muscle, the vastus intermedius, usually requires several weeks before the leg can be used without...
...away by his sobbing wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow for their friend. Oilman Doheny, crimson with rage and chagrin, shook his fist at the bench and screamed: "That damned court-." Mark Thompson, Fall attorney, went white and limp, slumped to the floor, lay there unconscious for ten minutes before physicians could revive him. Bending over him was Frank Hogan, chief defense counsel, ashy white with disappointment. Cried Lawyer Hogan: "Tell that damned jury to come back here and smile at this, too." The wife...
...Christmas Eve, 1908, Alice Warder, socially registered in Washington, was taken to wife by John Work Garrett, Baltimore scion. Last week, as she was cruising through the Adriatic with a bald-browed, black-bearded man with a limp, things happened in Washington which made her the spouse of the next U. S. Ambassador to Italy...
...while the adventure into chivalry of this sort appeals to the envious imagination of the home front, it is probably with a sigh of relief that the returning veterans contemplate the friendly opportunity of shaking the warm, limp hand of a president...