Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week imaginative Indianapolis citizens pictured to themselves a scene which, fortunately, never actually took place. In their minds' eyes they saw a Prohibition officer tracking down a suspicious-looking individual whose coat-pocket bulged with a telltale protuberance. They saw him clap hand on this individual's shoulder, reach into the bulging pocket and withdraw a bottle containing whiskey. And they saw the arrested individual turn upon his captor the face of Ed Jackson, Governor of Indiana...
...sound scientist, and opponent of the Einstein theory showed how the increased density of metal improves the tone of the instrument, talked on the development of perfect tone. From the lecture room his listeners followed him to the temporary rooms of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts. There they saw his collection of 711 Chinese flutes of jades and ivory flutes carved from human bones, of glass, of an eagle's wing, a ram's horn...
Young Feodor and friends would turn cartwheels, climb roofs and trees, shoot catapults, raid gardens, eat ripe poppy seeds. He was eight when he first saw the clown Yashka, a stout old man with ridiculously angry eyes in his coarse face...
Also seeking his 100th victory was John Ball, 66, eight-time amateur champion, the first amateur to win the British open title (1890). A large gallery followed spare Golfer Ball and his grizzled, wrinkled caddy. They saw him run chip-shots to within a club's length of the cup, five times on the first seven holes, only to miss easy putts. He was eliminated in the first round...
Their game came to them. Elephants visited their purposely planted sweet-potato patch so regularly that the Johnsons could recognize individuals, give them names, know them when they saw them many miles from home...