Word: slunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...
...first act. So charming was the animal that the audience all but forgot how Nancy Lane's adopted children, and their sudden $750,000 legacy, were about to be filched from her by her wily, citified sister and brother-in-law. Later on, when the cat had slunk away, the audience found nothing to divert it from the incredibly hoary spectacle of the two small, extremely stagey children choosing to remain with kind, gentle Nancy. Not even this situation satisfied Playwright Carl Henkle's taste for the archaic. He also introduced an inarticulate bumpkin who loved Nancy...
...Circus. A little ridiculous tramp, very hungry and without funds, was standing beside a pickpocket. The pickpocket grabbed from a rich man a watch, a wallet, saw that he had been observed, dropped the wallet & watch into the little tramp's pocket, slunk off. Pursued by the pickpocket the little tramp at last became aware of the fat purse that he was carrying. Pleased, he walked over to a hot-dog stand and bought himself a sausage; then he looked at his new watch. The proper owner of watch and wallet, approaching the little tramp, grabbed for his property...
Princeton's Tiger slunk from its Jersey jungle up to the green field which is Gilmour Dobie's classroom at Cornell. Surly the Tiger sniffed the students; snarled, and slunk three times across the goal line. Facing the beast for the first time in 20 years, Cornell was shattered...
...murder in the first degree", declared Bob Lampoon, the incomparable jester, grand vizier and high lama at all of Lampy's festive functions. "When vandals slunk down under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...