Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...animals loved variously. With the emu, the Australian ostrich, it was the males who cared for the children, guarding them against their morose mothers. The leopardess flirted by flicking her tail in the face of her mate until he sprang with fang and claw, snarling, whirling. The giraffes, a bull and two cows loved daintily, with acute tremblings. Lions "laughed and kissed in their delight." Then "I heard the song of the ape-man . . . [it] resounded in powerful alternations, Aw-Aw-Aw-H-u-u-uh, as tremendous as the lions' roar. It was the song of primitive life...
Mary's death made Elizabeth queen at 25. The yellow-red ringlets of her hair framed a dead-white face accented by dark, steady eyes. Though she "spat and swore like a man . . . suitors sprang up like mushrooms." Elizabeth, it seems, was ''broadminded about her favorites, but snobbish about her suitors." With one favorite, the brown-skinned Leicester, she was intimate in public but denied that she made similar concessions in private. Ben Jonson opined that she was "incapable of man" and Brantome, always physiologically acute, offered a theory ex- plaining that theory. Elizabeth rejected King Philip...
...Chancellor Ignaz Seipel, Policeman Schober, conservative but officially aligned with no political party, is the strongest figure in present day Austria. Without even waiting for any official announcement of policy from the new Chancellor, without even learning who was to compose his new cabinet, editors of all political faiths sprang to the conclusion that with good Policeman Schober in command everything would be all right...
...them, sometimes it veered against them, drove the flames across firebreaks to lick at the nearest roofs. The gas mains burst in Mill Valley. The water supply dribbled out. Two pump engines were hustled to Cascade Canyon to drain an abandoned reservoir. Refugees clogged the roads. Red Cross stations sprang up to treat the injured, house the homeless...
When the S. S. Leviathan docked last week the inspectors, bristling with success, sprang at 32 trunks belonging to four women, Mrs. Anna Loeb (mother of Murderer Richard Loeb) and three relatives. The Loeb ladies declared only $800 worth of foreign purchases. The Inspectors found enough frocks, gowns, fur coats and jewelry to require duties and penalties...