Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Using figures that curled into space like the tail of the mouse in Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Henry Pratt Fairchild, social economist of New York University, speculated with his hearers upon the world's population at the end of the 20th Century, at the end of 100 centuries...
...with "some talent, mysticism and taste," that the English blood did not "add a sense of humor to her complex composition." Finally she is left pondering what on earth the book is about. Says Mrs. Sheridan: "A strange young woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does much climbing of mountains, dresses in white robes, carries a spear, has her hair in two long braids. The horse is a 'grand creature'; so is Glava, and her nurse talks in an Irish dialect." It sounds a thoroughly bad book, yet she counsels people...
...okapi is about the size of a large stag, but hornless. Its head tapers to a point, its lips are soft and flexible, which indicates that it feeds upon foliage. In its upper jaw it has no teeth. Its tail resembles that of an ass. The coloring of the okapi is remarkable; cheeks and jaws are yellowish-white; forehead and muzzle chestnut red; large, ass-like ears red fringed with black. The neck, shoulders, barrel and back vary from sepia and black to deep red; the belly is blackish; the tail bright red with a black tuft. The hind quarters...
...Foster might have replied with great point: "We don't want a pure Communist organization nor a pure Communist platform because it will serve us better to control a party which might get many non-communist votes?on that account we would have liked to ride on the tail of Mr. LaFollette's kite. It would give us an opening and make a better impression in Moscow...
Looping is one of the simplest airplane maneuvers. The pilot dives his ship steeply towards the earth and gains tremendous speed. He then turns his elevator or horizontal up, so that the rush of air bears downward on the tail of his plane. Naturally the nose of the ship goes up, the plane climbs, the nose goes lighter and higher and for a brief moment of time the ship is flying upside down, only to dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve...