Word: planking
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...Dundee, N. Y., at the county fair, one Otis Dowland, in tights, flexed his biceps, patted his stomach, pouted his chest, lay on the ground. A plank was laid across his abdomen, an automobile driven towards him with the righthand wheels on the plank. Otis Dowland empurpled his face with straining, scowled up at the crowd, as the automobile ascended its human bump. The car's driver, a stupid bumpkin, stalled the engine in mid-plank. Strongman Dowland grimaced, retched, shrieked. The car was pushed away. Strongman was whisked to a hospital, where doctors pronounced his vitals...
...next word in a glitter of green and silver buckram. That was in the year . . . Nothing much had changed. Once more sunset powdered with golden dust the Cathedral Square of Salzburg; once more the monks looked down from their barred windows; once more, on a bare plank stage, God, the Father, in false hair delivered the speech that begins "the morall playe of Everyman." To be sure, the present prelate, Ignace Rieder, together with his Abbot, Peter Klotz, were more godly churchmen than their somewhat ribald predecessors; to be sure the waiting burgesses were mostly U. S. visitors...
...from collapsing. Though deprived of civic eligibility, he thumbed his nose and ran again in 1918 anyway. He even ran for President in 1920, getting 100,000 votes. Two years ago he conceived and executed his brilliant scheme of having his wife elected Governess on an Anti-Klan plank. An amnesty bill was ram med through the legislature to make him thoroughly respectable once more; and all might have been serene except that, as he sat at the executive desk helping his wife out, he was careless again and let some highway contracts get by, which necessitated the resignation...
...about the Duke of Arnaldo, whose ship is seized by pirates who cause the death of his father. The Duke escapes--Dong always escapes--and swears eternal vengeance against, the pirates. He beats the pirate captain in a fierce duel, becomes the pirate leader, captures the princess, walks the plank for crying to save her life, swims several leagues both under and on the water to effect her rescue and finally overcomes the pirates...
...Where Senator McKinley (Dry) is fighting with Frank L. Smith (Dry) for the Republican nomination on the World Court issue; and George Brennan, the Democratic leader, whose one plank like Mr. Vare's is Wetness, hopes...