Word: shafted
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...With proper ceremony she descended, but her triumphal sweep through the bronze portals of the store was cut short by two ex-Grand Dukes, clad in full regimentals, who guarded and barred the way. And they pointed as if saluting in review, to an open elevator shaft nearby, that projected from the basement to the sidewalk...
...spell broken, we went to look at the sign over the elevator shaft. It was the newest method of retailing crown jewelry and such things that we know. It was a method so daring and courageous in spirit that no Roosevelt defeatism will ever be able to overcome it. For the sign, in careless crayon letters, read out to the clientele, "For merchandise, yell down hole...
Shoot a bullet through a propeller shaft, all the way through the hooks and crooks of the crankshaft...
There may be something to Einstein's crooked light beams; but to shoot bullets around corners, through a barrel embedded in a propeller shaft revolving several thousand times per minute-Wow! Even if the barrel grooves would turn in the same direction as the propeller the velocity of the bullet would, in order to be effective, far exceed that of the propeller revolutions; so that, even if the bullet should manage to leave the propeller shaft, the accuracy of its aim would be as cockeyed as that of the New Year's soak trying to hit the keyhole...
Rustum is bracing his feet in the sirups, holding his bow at arm's length and his fingers taut, as he watches the fight of his shaft. Isfandiyar, pierced in the eye, is sinking forward, clutching at saddle and mane. But both faces are wholly impassive; no movement of the features was necessary to the Persian mind. None was thought worthy of the dignity of painting. The-flowery meadown is merely suggested; trees, rocks and clouds are formal conventions. But the cosmic aspect of the tragedy is announced by a great burst of organge fight in the darkness...