Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Submarines, seaplanes, and other naval craft put to sea. They found the spot of the wreck where bubbles of air boiled upward to the surface of the water. Divers went down and found the ship. They tapped her sides but no answering tap came from within. Yet hope was not given up. There was air enough in the S-51 to last for three days if any men had shut themselves up in one of the seven watertight compartments and were still alive...
...July 2 the baton of Conductor Serafin of the Opera, Buenos Aires, commenced to tap, to sweep in great circles, to dip, slither, crash. For two months not Ted Lewis' favorite wand exceeded it in frenzy. Then on Aug. 31 "A cabado !" (perfect, complete!), cried Serafin. "Delicioso," cooed the senoritas. "Bravo! Bien!" throated generous caballeros...
...down the room because he "so loves the rustle of silk. ..." A swollen little man, throned among his friends, shouting: "Go away. Go to the kitchen. That is the place for women. You are talking rubbish when you are talking music. ..." The old woman sits down, begins to tap the floor with her long foot, thinking of Siegfried Wagner, sapless shoot of a strong tree, who went to the U. S. but failed to raise money for Bayreuth (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924); of the night King Ludwig of Bavaria drove alone up the black highroad to Bayreuth to pay tribute...
...gavel-tap of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour...
...Swede, a Dane and an Italian, a Swiss, a Greek, a Frenchman, a Hungarian, a Belgian, a Czecho-Slovakian, a German, a Persian. Americans were there. Colonials from Canada, India, Rhodesia, were there; swarthy sons, also, of Spain and of Hayti. Almost all pedagogs, they awaited the gavel-tap of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland, indicative of the opening of the second biennial conference of the World Federation of Educational Associations. Founded in the U. S. in 1923 (TIME, July 2, 9, 16, 1923), headed by Dr. Augustus O. Thomas of Maine, this...