Word: slid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Switzerland, last week, there was a sudden muffled roar in the Arbedo Valley. The tip of Monte Arbino, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, was seen to quiver. One rock, then another, bounced and skidded down the mountain's side. Finally the whole peak slid clumsily into the surrounding valley. A huge cloud of dust spouted upward, for several days hung heavily over the scene of the avalanche...
...Crimson scores were made by W. R. Harper '30 who crossed the broad stripe twice on short line bucks and French who slid over from the ten yard line for the last touchdown...
...from fists to bombs, to pistols, or to machine guns." The Murphy murder quickly reverberated in Brooklyn, N. Y. Frank Uale, alias Yale, dressy gangster and racketeer, friend of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago, was cruising comfortably in his shiny Lincoln sedan. Another car (with Illinois license plates) slid up behind. Four men opened fire at the back of Uale's head, then drew alongside and shot off the side of his face. The Lincoln careened off the street, through a hedge, against a brick stoop. The Illinois car vanished...
...ship taxied out from the boat-landing of the Jeffrey Yacht Club in East Boston. Further out in the harbor the Friendship made four attempts to leave the water; then one of the crew of four stepped off onto a tug nearby. This time when the plane slid over the misty water the spray faded suddenly under her pontoons and the Friendship climbed up slowly in a curving line into the early morning. A man in a small boat, one of the few witnesses, shouted, "Hey. . . . They're off for England...
...Skidding slid into Manhattan via Pasadena, where it had been subjected to an amateur performance. On the opening night, its author who rejoices in the name of Aurania Rouverol, made a demure speech before the curtain, saying how surprised she was that Broadway producers should have interested themselves in her homely frivolities...