Word: paws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rated one of the strongest in amateur baseball, and his ability at luring men off third is unmatched. Together with Donald Gibbs '27, he will cover the keystone sack. Gibb's right arm has been ailing this spring, but he has readily learned to throw with his south paw, and should be at no disadvantage...
...tail was moving when he flattened himself for a precisely accurate spring. Knocking the feathers out of his whiskers, glancing around, he lifted the warm kill in his mouth. Its pretty head dragged stupidly as he picked his way to a cubby hole and hid it. Sheik licked a paw neat, stretched himself, stalked...
...much the same reason Henry Kendall, who plays the part of Heney, the young poet, fails to satisfy. He is too much All the Sad Young Men, and all that Mr. Kendall has any right to attempt is bondsalesmanship in three lessons. The extended paw and the unrelenting finger of the go-getter is his. His flair for comedy saves him at times, but after all nothing is so invaluable to a bond salesman as the ready joke...
...been the most phenomenal, many people recall when Josef Hofmann, aged 11, his feet barely touching the pedals, was the U. S. musical sensation of the day (1887). Compelled by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to withdraw, he studied under Anton Rubinstein, "lion with the velvet paw." His playing is noted for its rare melodious and technically flawless musicianship...
...Horta-toy houses of pure pink, blue, yellow and white-rim the smooth-curved harbor. . . . One day last week the volcanic crust of the earth subsided under Fayal. Some 1,500 of the little stone houses of Horta trembled, crumbled, fell down. A tidal wave washed in to paw their ruins...