Word: shafted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they could and did let themselves be strewn with island blossoms and lei (wreaths). They were made to feel tremendously important when the Maui left Honolulu by a dozen planes hawking, towering, swooping over the harbor in their honor. A dark shaft struck through their glory when an Army monoplane maneuvered by Lieut. Charles Linton Williams plummeted down and was wrapped, plane and man, in sea death...
...comes to that conclusion. Arthur Brisbane, Arthur the Great, is becoming sentimental. He's singing editorial mammy songs. He's weeping over the footlights of the pink sheets. He's dying on his feet. Mr. Hearst must go elsewhere for the poisoned arrow with the winged shaft. Or doesn't he want to? The rumor is that he doesn...
...Jefferson Davis, onetime President of the Confederate States of America. Last week workmen were completing an elevator installation; on June 3 the monument, which stands on the estate where Davis was born, will be formally dedicated. With the exception of the Washington Monument, it is the highest memorial shaft in the world...
...Boston. With his three brothers he started his career by buying a gold mine near Pike's Peak, Col., which was thought to be a quartz claim. General Fitz-John Porter† attempted to bore into the claim. Gold-miner Smith forthwith made an opening into the outlaw shaft from below, built a fire, and smoked out the General's workers. The General promptly installed a huge fan which blew the smoke down into the Smith workings, but whenever the fan was removed the fire was rebuilt. After three weeks the General gave up, returned east...
...inscriptions, was originally buried at Dashriv, a short distance south of the Great Pyramids. But owing to a robbery in this tomb the body was transferred to a safer position at the entrance of the pyramid of Giza. The sarcophagal chamber is located at the foot of a vertical shaft cut down 100 feet through the limestone...