Word: spun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spun round. Alice was standing on the steps with her lawyer. Her face was stern, but in her voice he detected-could it be?-a kindlier feeling. She was making him an offer. Without shame, filled only with gratitude, he accepted...
...second half, Mason and Wetmore tallied, taking the pigskin across the line after long marches by the 1930 team, and Wetmore spun a drop-kick over the bar from the 20-yard line for another three points...
...bases with two out. As swart Lazzeri dawdled to the plate, the Cardinals huddled around Pitcher Haines. In the stands an angry growl rose to pandemonium. Manager Hornsby came out of the huddle and shouted towards the distant "bull pen" (where pitchers practice). No one appeared. Fielder Hafey spun on his heel to carry the message, when a lumbering, red-sweatered figure appeared. "Alexander!" yelled the stands. That freckled runagade went to the pitcher's mound. "Keep your shirts on," he said and pitched five practice balls. "Don't worry," he said and pitched past Lazzeri three strikes...
...Mayor will arrive in Asheville, the guest of local boosters, on a special train christened The Land of the Sky. Retiring from the public view for a few moments, Mr. Walker is scheduled to emerge in his grey "mountaineer-spun" suit...
...with prompt good taste. All last week he was rushed around Manhattan. Men with papers and pencils in their hands kept pointing things out to him and waiting to see the mist of wonder rise in his face. They made him go through a door with four sides that spun round like a trap and, of course, he got stuck in it-that was what they seemed to expect of him. They asked him what he thought of the women he saw. "They have naked necks," he said. He grew a little tired of taxicabs and tuxedos, of nightclubs...