Word: skittishly
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...they passed the Wellington Arch, there was a flurry in the crowd behind Constable Dick's shoulder. Something shiny flashed through the air, landed under King Edward's charger. The horse took a few skittish steps, then straightened out. The King never flinched. Equerry Sir John dropped back. A shiny revolver lay on the pavement. Over the heads of an excited crowd appeared the rumpled features of George Andrew McMahon, being hustled away by four policemen towards a patrol van. Special Constable Dick had looked up just in time to see the revolver wavering in the herbalist...
...pouring out of France in huge daily shipments, which have depleted that country's gold stocks by $200,000,000 in the past fortnight, by about $500,000,000 in the past year. These sums did not represent withdrawals of foreign balances in French banks. That type of skittish liquid capital has long since sought other havens, notably London and Manhattan. French capitalists themselves were converting their wealth into gold, sending it out of the land before the new Chamber of Deputies with its heavy Leftist majority assembles next month (TIME...
...with, Dr. Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins exhibited a lantern slide depicting the impression of an apple leaf driven into solid steel by guncotton, declared the detonation in a tube of nitroglycerin proceeds at four mi. per sec., described a new explosive, iodide of nitrogen, which is so skittish that the landing of a housefly sets...
Smart Publishers Farrar & Rinehart have lined up a dozen-odd professional writers, given them carte blanche to be skittish. Publisher Alan Rinehart, only non-professional contributor, skits creditably on the perils of childbirth from the husband's viewpoint. Supreme-seller Hervey Allen ponderously parodies himself in a syllabus of an even bigger novel than Anthony Adverse. Author Rex Stout blows the gaff on how to water down love stories for a fiction editor. Newcomer Ed Bell (Fish on the Steeple) sticks a plum in the pudding, in the form of a small-town Southern story. Arthur Kober writes...
After its capture Aduwa showed little evidence of fighting, none of bombing. The muddy streets were swept clean, festooned with flags and triumphal arches of branches. Just outside the town General de Bono changed from his automobile to the back of a skittish little Arab charger, rode through the streets and to the parade ground beyond the town. There he reviewed 11,000 of his men, dedicated the monument whose erection was the first move of the invading Italians...