Word: soaringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...costumes, which sound out loud and strong, like chords, against the chilly silence of the curtain background. Although crudely painted in spots, the picture is too convincing for technical quibbles. Each of the three acrobats is characterized as an individual, yet even on the tanbark they seem to soar as a team...
Bolivia is packed with such stark contrasts. It is a country of majestic mountain scenery and miserable human squalor, of tremendous natural resources and examples of their wretched neglect and abuse. To the west, condors soar over abandoned Spanish silver mines near icy, blue Titicaca, highest navigable lake in the world; in the remote east, ranchers graze their gaunt herds in a jungle reputed to be floating on oil. The Bolivian land itself is split in two-the barren, windswept uplands, fenced about by the snowy Andes; and the vast, green east, an unpopulated, trackless region of plains and jungle...
...Manhattan's Greenwich Village. From this street, where the tree of heaven which also grows in Brooklyn thrusts bravely upward from narrow sidewalks, a man emerges almost every day bound for Washington Square, a few blocks away. A weathered hat rides high on a head seeking to soar from squared shoulders loosely draped in an old jacket, from the left pocket of which protrudes a notebook. The face under the hat takes daylight as though it and the light and air are friends. Hazel eyes, which now seem abstracted, can, in the closer proximity of a room, . pierce disconcertingly...
...Crown & Co. wanted the profitable Rock Island, they would also have to take Young's holdings in the Seaboard Air Line Railroad which was not doing too well. To save the deal, Crown took the Seaboard stock himself. Again he cashed in. Seaboard stock began to soar, and Crown more than doubled the $600,000 he paid for it. In addition, the $4,000,000 he put into Rock Island bonds has nearly tripled...
...contrast to this, both Charles Laughton and David Wayne soar far beyond O. Henry's narrow limits in The Cop and the Anthem. Both are tramps who spend the summer in New York's parks, the winter in its jails. But getting into "a nice, warm cell" is not as easy as one might think. Blending pathos with humor, Laughton steals an umbrella, breaks a window, swindles a restaurant--all unnoticed by the police. In the best tradition of O. Henry irony, he is nabbed just when he decides to turn respectable...