Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some might say ocean-daring, self-effacing Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...exposition hall were 300 brightly colored booths, housing nearly every design of plane or accessory on the market. A professor demonstrated a fool-proof self-landing, self-balancing plane, dubbed "the flying pickle...
...used a style of combat peculiar to his nation; Jiu Jitsu, the gentle and famous art of making an opponent use his strength to encompass his own defeat. For 3,000 years the Japanese have used this graceful and economical method of self defense. Jiu Jitsu must not be compared or confused with another often pictured species of Japanese wrestling, somewhat like capoeira, in which two 400-lb. bullies stand face to face and each endeavors mainly by pulling at the sparse clothing of his adversary to topple him over. Jiu Jitsu requires enormous training; Jap boys rise early...
...whispered tales of villagers and gypsies, forever in the portraits that glared fiercely from the dusky walls of the manor gallery. Tainted with madness, each generation warped and haunted the next, till between them their evil eye withered the fruit of the womb, and ended the line. Vivid, self-willed, fascinating, they had persisted through four ages...
...bland rewrite men. Imperia Starling snatches Ambrose Deacon to her Italio-Spanish-Tudor-Romanesque villa, gives him a small dinner party for 60 or 80, makes passionate love to him, orders him to write her a script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self-defense he signs a rival producer's contract, and marries a sub-star from Kansas City, to the luxurious jingle of magnificent jewels, gilt-edged limousines, plum-colored footmen, in short−Hollywood. The author handles his glittering incredible material with staccato brilliance...