Word: purr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Picture for yourself the dapper voyager anxiously waiting for the soft purr of the R-101 to come out of the inky darkness. At hand a copious supply of cigarettes, wrist watches, fountain pens, and . . . but the list of endorsed merchandise is too long. Already the Vagabond could visualize the welcoming parade, the lecture dates at woman's clubs, his photograph in every room in Smith, Vassar and Wellesley, the fan mail from Radcliffe. And he could hear the sighs of debutantes make soft music in his ears. What a night of nights...
...hundred men with ropes pulled her out of the house in which she lolled. She swayed a little and they had to be careful not to let her injure herself by bumping against the sides of the house. Out in the open, she made a noise somewhere between a purr and a roar, put her nose into the sky, was soon out of sight...
...caravan consisting of a soft-seated motor bus and four automobiles will purr out of Winfield, Kan., on July 9, carrying 45 students of Southwestern College on a tour of 22 U. S. states, and two provinces of Canada. It will not be a mere rubber-necking tour, for Dr. William M. Goldsmith, who is in charge of the expedition and of Southwestern's biology department, has promised to instruct as well as point out. The students will visit Mount Vernon, Va., and Bunker Hill, Mass., as well as the Metropolitan Art Museum and the Museum of Natural History...
...described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr and chatter...
...roused perhaps too late, sent pompous officials about the streets armed with heavy swords. Criers announced that they would cut off the head of any one found making subversive speeches; but, when they passed, the purr of English and Chinese began again...