Word: paws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highly dramatic incident recharged the air with electrical emotion. The delegates had signed the final protocol of the agreement and were somewhat sheepishly regarding one another with a "that's that" expression on their faces, when Premier MacDonald started the electricity by shaking hands all round. The paw of Chancellor Marx he held long and earnestly, led its owner to Premier Herriot of France, seized the right hand of the latter and affectionately pressed it into that owned by Wilhelm Marx. German and Frenchmen's hands tightened in a cordial hand salute while Premier Ramsay smiled benignly...
...Charles D. Gibson's Life a two-page cartoon which struck terror into the heart of the observer. It depicted a hideous reptile crawling across the map of the U. S. Its tail was securely planted in San Francisco. Part of its belly burdened New York. One lugubrious paw had Chicago in its clutch, another Los Angeles. An outstretched limb had already grabbed Albany, the giant fore paw overshadowed Washington. Of the face of the beast there could be no question. It was the heavy-hanging face of William Randolph Hearst...
...extremely discouraging to pick up such a text book, only to find that the passages quoted as examples are from speeches and writings of the middle of the last century and long ago forgotten. The ardor of the most interested young student is smothered if he is asked to paw over a dry and dusty question brought many years ago to a decision or a working compromise...
...dummy American" manufactured out of whole cloth by Franklin, and the age which produced him, has been bandied about by the subsequent writers until by the time of Walt Whitman there is nothing to do but to paw over the shredded remains. In him Mr. Lawrence finds "all that false exuberance. All those lists of things boiled in one pudding-cloth". Whitman is at the end of the road, at the very verge of the precipice...
...family. When he reached the age of employment-an early age-he went to work for his brother, Nazareth, a shoemaker. But Antonio became only an indifferent cobbler. He learned to sole a shoe only passably, and regarded the putting on of O'Sullivan and Cat's Paw heels a sad bore. He had a great passion for Caruso records, and at times when he should have been hammering and stitching he cranked a phonograph and listened, rapt. At his work he always sang...