Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deputies start shooting their real guns. The crowd fled shrieking down the street in all directions. The deputies kept shooting. Bodies began to drop-three, five, ten, a score. "For God's sake stop firing!" Sheriff Adkins says he shouted. But already a lot more blood had been shed in the textile war of the Carolinas. Three men were dead. There were 24 wounded (mostly in the back), including a woman. One of the wounded men died before the Marion mill whistle shrieked its next day's warning. Three more were dying. Sheriff Adkins, 13 of his deputies...
...some years now since the Roving Reporter received his sheepskin from a New England college, shed a tear or two on the chapel steps and departed either to set the world on fire or discover that its principal ingredient was asbestos...
Sadly, and not so reminiscently, the Roving Reporter went to the chapel steps to shed another tear. There were no bars in college 10 years ago. --The Boston Herald...
...near Fort Lauderdale. Thither was escorted Alderman, full of repentance and new-found "religion." Greatest secrecy surrounded the execution. Newsmen were barred under threats of contempt of court. Guardsmen, pale in the pale dawn light, ringed the hangar as Alderman mounted the scaffold. A singing sea breeze through the shed swayed his body at the end of a rope as justice was done for all good U. S. people...
...Admitting that the magazine had "fallen by the wayside," Editor Doubleday promised renewed vigor, interest, progressiveness under his leadership. Also he told of two biographies soon forth-coming-one of the late great Myron T. Herrick, one of Banker-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. When a new caddy joins the caddy-shed gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island, one of the first persons he learns to recognize is a very tall, very lean, very sunburned man with a decided aquiline nose, a pleasant smile. "That's Russell Doubleday," the new caddy is told. "He's a swell...