Word: lurchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor William Frederick Broening of Baltimore got in the City Hall elevator, felt it lurch loose its cables, fall three floors. Both his ankles were sprained...
...Flung Huey, prognosticator par excellence, has been, located again, according to latest reports. The famous Oriental sage quietly slipped out of town last Friday leaving his public in the lurch and since his disappearance many rumors as to his whereabouts have reached Cambridge. One report was that he was seen sneaking around Wall Street late Friday night. Another, from Chicago, was to the effect that he was seen on the corner of 39th and Halstead, straightening out matters with disappointed Windy City fans who are still grumbling about the Cubs' defeat...
...stop have asked us to communicate with you stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard." It gave a definite inkling of what might happen very soon. In fact Joe might well have quit then if it had not been that he was unwilling to leave his friends in the lurch. This year however he never signed a contract and though it was hoped that he might turn up late, the worst was feared...
Long after little Hollis and his mother went to bed, as the ship's bell struck midnight, they were all but thrown from their berths by a lurch of the vessel. Half awake, the child could hear screams, shrieks, the anguished cries of the humans in great peril. Quickly his mother bundled him in her arms, rushed him through a fear-tormented mob to the deck. Stars had disappeared. On the foggy deck, indistinct figures ran about, cursing and praying for life preservers...
...wheel of an aged but still active automobile, the Vagabond was called upon to navigate a narrow passage between a car parked on one side of the road and a large mudhole on the other. But a winter's inactivity must have impaired his driving eye, for with a lurch and a slither the front wheel buried itself in the mud, and when the Vagabond got out to see the damage only a few grimy spokes emerged from the depth. Always helpless where mechanical resourcefulness is needed, the Vagabond made a few futile attempts at digging with a jack handle...