Word: railed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frustrate music merchant; a tropical trollop; a ripe Jew; a psychic; a chess-player; a man with a glass eye. Each person is treated as a universe unto himself, in the vaster but no more inscrutable universe of sea and sky now and then visible over the rail or through a porthole...
...largest U. S. holder of rail-road stocks, Arthur Curtiss James of Manhattan, said: "I know that everyone. . . will be sorry to hear the news...
...found one with weak eyes. He set a small hurdle in front of the beast and Mr. Bradley watched the horse walk toward it and bump his shins. Mr. Bradley ordered his whole stable tested. Dr. Emons made glasses for four of them. They race truer. Previously near the rail or in a bunch of horses they climbed*; they performed inconsistently and ran good races only when breaking from the barrier far outside. Now they can see where they are going. They run fast in bunches. Racemen at Saratoga are converted. They see it all now, like the horses...
...cover of Liberty for July 16 spoiled many an appetite. It showed a man on the verge of vomiting over the rail of a ship named...
Sirs: . . . Folks who rail at TIME because it's not like each and every other magazine remind me of the lady who on visiting New Orleans bitterly complained of not getting "veal cutlet served like they do in Philadelphia," while I was having the time of my life enjoying all the strange items on the daily menus-shrimp in various ways -baked Pompano-the delectable trout from Lake Pontchartrain, crab gumbo...