Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned-out Greek beauty and that their daughter Sparta has a dazzling net of golden hair, grey eyes changing as a winter cloud, and a voice like "skeins of rock-crystal flecked through and through with tiny flakes of softest gold...
Next morning at 7:00, whistles shrieked in the collieries of Pennsylvania. Grinning miners, with carbide lamp on cap, went down into the dark. Carefully they tapped on the roofs to make sure no rock had loosened since their last visit 170 days before. Busily they loaded fallen rock and repropped the roof where it was necessary...
...dance began. Charlestoners, male and female, from Akron, Cleveland, Canton, McKeesport, Pa.; from Detroit and Toledo; from Wichita, Kan., Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Davenport, Topeka, Omaha, and Waterloo, la.; from Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, Joliet and Peoria, 111.; from Charleston, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa, Okla., branded their shinbones and burned their heels, clutched each other, pumping, weaving, while the fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys...
...shaft went still deeper. Workers were lowered in wicker baskets from the surface to cut out the blocks. The rock far below proved to below proved to be less solid than at the surface and big chunks flaked off and were dislodged by the baskets. Finally on March 7, the 100 foot mark was reached and still the bottom was not attained. Tapping on the wall the workers discovered a hollow sound, however, and correctly assumed that the shaft went down by one of the great chambers...
Knives and grinding instruments were again brought into play and a tiny hole was started on the spot which sounded hollow. The nearby rock was chipped away with great care and flashlights were...