Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home are some model seadromes, and a model of the great S. S. Majestic. When he invited experts to hear him out last week, it was also to see him demonstrate his seadromes' seaworthiness, by switching on fans to whip the tank into a maelstrom that would sink the miniature Majestic while the floating islands tugged but mildly at their anchors...
...Berthelin, one of the greatest of French chefs. He spoke with verve and passion in his own defense: "This creature Davillard, my dishwasher, my scullion, what did he do that I should stab him in the chest with my carving skewer? Ha! Nom de Dieu! Standing at his filthy sink, he declared that my sauces stink, that they engender colic in delicate stomachs. My sauces! Sacre bleu! The pride of my cuisine. The pride of France. . . . "Mes amis, the sensibilities, the temperament of a great chef cannot be thus baited with impunity! Blood swam before my eyes. ... I skewered...
...more beside. His final score was 291. Watrous had taken 293. And to tie the winning score on the last hole Hagen wanted a 2. He drove and then, with a characteristic gesture, told the boy to take the flag out of the cup. He intended, it appeared, to sink his approach. The ball rushed at the hole, bounced from the lip of the cup, finished in a bunker...
Literary hoaxes rise and fall. Some of them manage to get included in all histories of English literature like "The Journal of the Plague Year"; the great majority sink into the limbe of forgotten things with all too great a readiness. And in apparent contradiction to physics, the fall thereof is never as great as the rise: Miss Magdalen King-Hall is probably now meditating on this strange phenomenon...
...able Jew. There are telephones at every turn, express elevators that fly up like harnessed rockets and drop down like oiled meteors. Lounge rooms, gorgeously decorated, allure business-weary limbs with divans and sofas and curving love-chairs; while upstairs, opening upon corridors carpeted with rugs into which feet sink as into perfumed snow, bridal suites and grand suites and supersuites await their imminent occupants with tapestries of many various colors, and furniture beyond the dreams of Park Ave. All these, the gilt dining-rooms clotted with music, the cool oasis of the lobby, and the long line of brilliantly...