Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After we have sped through a maze of humor, which makes up in quantity what it lacks in quality (as the saying goes), and if we have been able to speed through this maze of humor, we will light upon the second part of the book with great relish. The author has conveniently, though perhaps not wisely, divided into two sections the story of his wanderings up the valley of the Dinder River into the foothills of the Abyssinian border. The first he uses to question the reader and himself on "Why do men do it?; the second to answer...
...administrative reform could regenerate the Navy without burden to the taxpayers, "yet, as is ever the case, to reform requires a certain amount of ruthlessness and moral courage of a high order." "Sic 'Em." So soon as Washington correspondents had read Rear Admiral Magruder's article, they sped to Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. Would Rear Admiral Magruder be disciplined? Secretary Wilbur could not yet say. While he was poring over the article and having its statements checked up, the correspondents sent off despatches citing two paragraphs from the Navy regulations, which restrain officers from publishing...
Across Europe he sped...
Anguished but cool, the Fascist Commander whipped out his revolver, took careful aim, fired. A bullet sped, clipping a fragment out of the stone column behind which Communist Missiroli was hiding. Again the Fascist Commander took a careful bead, pulled the trigger. Communist Missiroli, with a cry of pain and rage, dropped dead...
...Wood, speed-boatman, sped along the St. Clair River off Al-gomac, Mich., in his Baby America III. One hand on the wheel, eyes intent on the stopwatch, he ignored a passing steamboat. A swell capsized Baby America 111. Three young women rescued stunned Gar Wood. Said he: "I know now how Sharkey felt when Dempsey...