Word: shafted
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...winning drawings were all unique in the history of the competition. The design that took second place was a marble shaft that had a perpetual fire burning in it, which was supposed to be placed at the top of memorial and set full ablaze on Armistice...
...current number of Harpers. Samuel Hopkins Adams adds his shaft to the many which through all time have descended upon the ancient and honorable estate of matrimony. He advocates a scheme whereby the parties contracting in marriage shall agree to separate for a certain number of weeks in each year, during which period each shall endeavor to reconstitute his or her own individuality. Mr. Adams points out that to the student there comes a summer respite from school and a winter respite from home; to the bricklayer there comes a Saturday afternoon; to the professor, a sabbatical year...
...dinner hour was always uncertain. If we induced him to attend the theatre, he always went back to the tunnel afterward, spending hours in the field offices and personally supervising the work." It exhausted him and he died, 1924, of heart failure. The states made his tunnel a horizontal shaft over his memory...
...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...