Word: spun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steer broke loose and jumped over the rails into the audience. Rogers roped it and was given so much publicity that he was booked in Keith's Union Square Theatre in an act of his own. Sitting on a pony in the middle of the stage he chewed gum, spun a rope, cracked jokes. Later, in the Follies, where he appeared without the pony, he chewed and drawled for 20 minutes his homely, immensely witty comments on current news...
Vexed by his losses at Monte Carlo, an indignant player in sleek evening clothes rose from one of the roulette tables last week, extracted a hand grenade from his tailcoat pocket, tossed it onto the wheel where the little ball spun, then quickly made his escape amid panic...
Citizen Flamm then announced that he has devised an "invisible torpedo," that is to say, one which leaves no tell-tale wake of air bubbles. Many a ship was saved during the War when its lookouts spotted the wake of an approaching torpedo and the wheel was instantly spun to swerve the ship. With an "invisible" torpedo-presumably one propelled by some other means than compressed air-the first warning of attack would be the actual explosion of the torpedo...
...several Continental schools, found nothing to inspire her until she read of the Mahatma's labor. Correspondence with him followed; in 1926 she went to India, cheerfully accepted the year's probation to which he subjected her. She slept on a splintered floor, cooked her own meagre food, spun her clothes from raw cotton. Having learned Hindu, taken a Hindu name, embraced the Hindu faith, she became tantamount to the Mahatma's private secretary, accompanied him on trips to the villages, supported his spindly frame when, though ill, he persisted in taking his ruminative walks. Madeleine Slade wished...
...FORTUNE'S first cover is a twelve-spoked wheel of the Zodiac, spun slowly against a golden sky by a shapely Goddess of Plenty. The management promised a different cover design in similar vein each month. Among the footnotes (relegated to the last pages after the scholar's fashion) it was told that Thomas Maitland Cleland, designer and typographer, executed the first cover and is the new handmaiden's important adjunct, Art Editor...