Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brake, plunged it down upon the gas. His car, bounding, lurching, sped down the hill. Half a mile farther on he met First-Secretary Arthur Bliss Lane of the U. S. Embassy, motoring toward Mexico City with his wife and daughter. Warned by Mr. Quick the Lanes turned round, sped back to Cuernavaca...
...prompt good taste. All last week he was rushed around Manhattan. Men with papers and pencils in their hands kept pointing things out to him and waiting to see the mist of wonder rise in his face. They made him go through a door with four sides that spun round like a trap and, of course, he got stuck in it-that was what they seemed to expect of him. They asked him what he thought of the women he saw. "They have naked necks," he said. He grew a little tired of taxicabs and tuxedos, of nightclubs and subways...
...averaged a flat two strokes a hole more than Jones. Between these two came a discrepant assortment of gentlemen, from slow-moving little Rudolph Knepper, onetime Princeton captain, with 147, to wavering, uncertain Watts Gunn (Bobby Jones's Atlanta playmate"), who just managed to qualify with a second round of 83 after a bad first round of 80. A certain George Von Elm of Los Angeles was down the list...
Judge E. H. Gary: "Every year when my birthday comes round the newspapers speak darkly of a pitcher that has gone too often to the well. Last week I was 80. As usual, I failed to announce my retirement as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U. S. Steel Corp. I go to the office every day and stay as long as anyone. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, cheered me up by a bit of smart rhetoric. 'Gladstone,' he said, 'ran the British Parliament when he was past 80; Von Moltke ran the German army when...
...forced into the waste basket instead. There is a thrill of finding out things other people do not know, things perhaps told you, a newspaper man, in confidence and not for publication. There is the feeling of being on the inside and learning just why the wheels go round. There is the fun of sitting at the press box at a football or baseball game and exchanging opinions with the other sports writers. Above all, there is the inevitable mental heave out of seeing in print the things that one has written...