Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours. Then the Augustus steamed on. None doubted that Miss Louise Moore had drowned instanter. But 17 hours later, the Italian merchant vessel Capo Nord came wallowing after the Augustus into the vicinity where the tragedy occurred. A lookout peering from the Capo Nord's mast saw or thought he saw a woman floating. Whatever the lookout saw vanished before the Capo Nord could be stopped. Search again proved fruitless. The lookout said: "I distinctly saw a bobbed-haired woman in a pink garment...
...name of Man does not derive from its limited fauna but from the Latin name Mona. Its people are tall, Celtic, peaceable. In their looks there is none of that impish cruelty which is supposed by many to account for the condition of their cats. One of these last, a baleful creature with listless and ungraceful motions, attended the congress of the Manxmen, in the capacity of mascot...
...most potent brothers never seem to get left very far behind. While Harris and White and The Guild, all comparatively new competitors, leap ahead with inspiration, the Shuberts gallop steadily along, always good-natured and always ready to accept the new thing without growls and murmurs. Their faces have none of the melancholy which distinguishes that of A. H. Woods. A Shubert's face is always cheerful, his eyes are bright, his clothes old-fashioned but snappy. The theatre is to the Shuberts a melodious grocery store in which they labor with perfect equanimity, knowing their business well...
When Nominee Hoover, who is none too fond of newsgatherers, apostrophized "those invisible millions," the radio audience, it was perhaps with the hope that some day a Nominee's baby-patting, pipe-smoking and flycasting will not have to be overseen by newsgatherers clutching shorthand pads and cinema cranks. Perhaps, some day, contact between the People and their servants can be maintained directly, by colored-wireless-television or something. Then, at scheduled moments during the day or week, the Nominee can simply take off his invisible-silencing-suit or whatever device has been provided for his privacy, and, face...
...with disabled airplanes, with foiled suicides. From all he got a concurrence of testimony: that their thoughts were lucid and followed each other with weird swiftness, that they were fully aware of, and resigned to death, that music sounded. Some felt as if they were passing through rosy clouds. None felt pain immediately upon striking earth. Such too are symptoms of asphyxia. People who tumble from great heights are slowly stifled unconscious, dead...