Word: roam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus is the tenderfoot regaled in lightly populated sections of the continent, where roam the sidehill gouger, the minktum, tigermonk, high-behind,* lava bear, hoop snake, jointed snake, Peruvian whiffen-whoofen, banana fish, mile-or-more bird and other creatures of times and times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week...
...Bandits Roam Desert...
...ones that the President had talked not of his politics, but of his personaltiy. If he choses Bruce Barton as his confidante, in preference to more inquisitive souls, that, after all, was his own business. Henceforth, however, the President was to be quite mute. Again the chatty wraith would roam Capitol Hill. The reporters went away musing, and thinking that possibly the executive was not nearly so speechless as he appeared...
...England in the 18th Century, many a poet rhapsodized on the noble redskin, wept at the thought that some day no more Indians would live to roam through the American forest primeval...
...condition of Hemenway would hardly be fitting for an abbatoir. Nor are the results far to seek. If the man next to you in class wears a mask of diseased flesh, he is a wrestler who lost a bout to one or several of the loathsome skin infections that roam at large in our gymnasium. And if, presently you wear a similar mask, though you never went within a block of Hemenway, it just goes to prove that rumour is not the only thing that spreads. Some day the bugs will take that gymnasium up by the roots and walk...