Word: limpingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cripple Creek field (said to be named for a stream in which a cow once acquired a limp by getting stuck in the mud) is 36 square miles of volcanic rock on the southwestern slope of Pikes Peak. There, half-century ago, men's fortunes boiled as furiously as had the prehistoric lava which formed the plateau. A cowhand named Bob Womack, after digging so many holes that he endangered the lives of his employers' cattle, made the first strike in 1891, went on a spree, and discovered next morning that he had sold his claim...
...years between the two armistices France made a national shrine of that spot in the Forest of Compiègne. Trees were felled, the clearing carpeted with soft grass. A monument was erected-a sword thrust into a limp German eagle-and on the base of the monument was chiseled this inscription: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine. At the spot where the car had stood a great granite block bore the words: Here on the Eleventh of November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished...
Sons of the Others might have been written for a boys-school literary magazine; certainly it would have been hooted down by college editors. It is a limp, sad affair in which Frenchmen supply atmosphere by calling each other My Old One; Old School Ties meet up in Northern France to drink bubbly, chaff each other about flirting with the French girls, and suffer, with their allies, the boredom of the long winter's "sitzkrieg...
...were plenty of surprising items: a huge, romantic, melodramatic scene by Copley, Watson and the Shark; a nude, Ariadne Asleep in the Island of Naxos, painted in a day when nudes were taboo, by Gilbert Stuart's pupil Vanderlyn; a pioneer surrealist work, Deluge, by Washington Allston, with limp white corpses, fantastic serpents, a four-fanged she-wolf; Raphael Peale's After the Bath, in which the ultra-realistic painting of pins in a towel antedated the work of meticulous Realist William Harnett...
Back in Washington, Texas Jack comported himself as if he had never been away. Clamping his teeth on an unlighted cigar, he shook a few limp hands, slapped a few backs, announced heartily: "Just feel my arms, feel those muscles in my legs. Boys, I'm hard as nails." One of the first things he asked was why Congress did not adjourn...