Word: spasms
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...Quorn was due to meet in Leicestershire's Loughborough last week on Boxing Day when a spasm of horror racked Sir Harold and his subscribers. Word slipped out that a crass and venal Loughborough manufacturer proposed a novel stunt to advertise his pants and shirts. As the Quorn met he would release a fox dressed in shirt and pants...
...President Thomas George Lee of Armour & Co. Mr. Bane's oral ruling came as the final spasm in a year-long nightmare. Mr. Lee, who pulled profits out of Armour last year for the first time since 1930, tried to reorganize the packing company last summer but various stockholder groups blocked him at a rowdy meeting in August. Salaries next became the target for the protective committee's publicity. Months of wrangling over a new board revealed that Frederick Henry Prince, crusty septuagenarian banker of Boston, had become Armour's biggest individual stockholder. Last January another rowdy...
...calm evening in Washington last week a tiny mirror twitched in a tiny spasm. So at the moment did similar mirrors in London, Bombay, Frankfurt am Main, Ottawa, Pasadena, Victoria, New York City. Each twitching mirror reflected a beam of light on a revolving drum covered with photosensitive paper. When seismologists saw these jagged tracks they knew that a mighty earthquake was somewhere in progress...
...pretty poor apology for the ogre it was damned for. Most of the business was in the hands of local distillers and nine-tenths of the saloons were controlled by the brewers. The old Distilling Co. slipped steadily until the War. It made $10,000,000 in a final spasm in 1918, changed its name to U. S. Food Products Corp. after Prohibition, finally collapsed...
...night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve some obsessing pain, a bell tolled the hour like a bad omen...