Word: shafted
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...explosion was thought to have taken place near the shaft and its force was felt in all three levels of the mine. Miners near the shaft were blown to pieces, others were killed by suffocation. At one point, an inscription was found chalked up on the wall: "All well up to 11 o'clock. Nine men." Under the inscription lay the nine men-all dead. At another place, three brothers were found dead, locked in one another's arms...
...narrative. Dug from the worried contents as best it can be, it is this: A miner in a West Virginia coal town breaks jail. He bayonets a soldier of the invading companies sent to subdue strike disturbances by martial law. Pursued, he finds momentary safety in a mine shaft and there assaults a little Jewish maiden. He is captured, blinded, hanged. His mother, the girl and her father are clutched by the Ku Klux, rescued by agitators. The murderer returns sightless and amalgamates himself with the girl, about to be a mother, in a jazz wedding ceremony...
...dark, pitch dark, save for one shaft of light boring through the crowded room. This light played on a slim white mast, played on a miniature British Union Jack fluttering slowly aloft. An unseen band struck up God Save the King...
...greatest delight and accomplishment is punning in phrases, giving a clever twist to another's epigram, or setting, in the midst of an immaculate sentence, some rich gem of slang. Occasionally his erudition waxes into windy verbosity, but not for long. Soon there will come a forthright shaft of sarcasm, or a quotation, such as Yeats' remark about George Moore: "What a pity Moore never had a love affair with a lady-always with women of his own class...
...Manhattan, on amateur night at the Chaloner Theatre, a young violinist stood playing in the spotlight, trying to please. Balcony buffoons listened, whispered, snickered, talked aloud, cat-called, bellowed out: "Send him a message !" Immediately, other buffoons released four pigeons. Straight for the shaft of spotlight flew the pigeons, down it, straight for the young violinist. One bird dashed into his face, stunned him partially, itself completely. The violinist picked up the prostrate bird, stumbled off the stage...