Word: locked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birth of Venus" shows a curling lock of blonde hair tied with lavender ribbon, balanced against a branch of coral which in turn stands on a block of cork and a cockleshell...
...looting his Park Avenue apartment. Noiselessly he snatched a Turkish sword-cane from the wall, forced Charles Faye at the point of it into a seat, made him talk about himself, made him demonstrate how, with strips of vellum and a piece of tin, he had jimmied the apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said he was indigent, it was his first "job," pleaded for mercy. After two hours Mr. Prentiss, well satisfied with his "experiment," turned Faye over to police who made him confess...
...Gray entered the president's office, Mr. Springer left. The door was closed. The stenographers and clerks did not hear the lock snap shut. But before Mr. Springer reached the lift the sound of angry voices came from the room. Then, in startling succession, came a fusillade of five shots. The outer office froze into silent, motionless attention. Before it was broken there was a round of five more shots, the sound of glass falling...
...When Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, appears at an aquatic function, such as the opening of the giant Ymuiden lock of the North Sea Canal (TIME, May 12), she is greeted by "Houzee! Houzee!" contraction for the Dutch naval cheer "Houdt de Zee!" ("Hold...
...pronounced burr, Roger McEwan of Glasgow. With his sister Alice he jogged and pranced through the fast fox-trot (he calls it the Quick-step). Swifter than that of 1929, it has more jigs, zigzags, nickers, turns and quarter-turns. One turn, for its peculiar twist, he calls the Lock & Key. Music 54 bars to the minute supplies the rhythms...