Word: throbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undergraduates who study, play bridge, and, theoretically, sleep in the Bow Street dormitories will feel a throb of sympathy at the news that the population of Park Avenue in New York is rising in revolt against a chime of bells recently installed in un uptown church. Just when the nurse gets the baby to sleep, five o'clock strikes with much metallic prelude; and by the time the miracle is once more accomplished, the chime strikes the quarter with such gusto that the child's temper is permanently ruined. There is a great deal of romance about bells...
...readers miss a single throb in all the gamut of suffering which Mr. Sergel catalogues, it is only because their revolted stomachs bid them turn over the groaning pages to the more common unhappinesses that lie beyond. In particular he dwells on the mental anguish which Arlie Gelston, the heroine, goes through while she is endeavoring to conceal her misfortune from family and townsfolk. No detail is too gruesome for him; he fairly revels in the vivisection of her soul...
...smaller capillaries. The seaboard cities like New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Boston may be likened to the lungs of this great body, for it is at these ports that the old blood is exchanged for new and sent back to the heart for distribution. Every throb of railroad policy that emanates from the heart is felt in all parts of the system, even down to minute capillaries like the Manchester, Dorset and Granville Railroad with 6 miles of track. And when the great trunk lines get together to decide what proportion of their freight receipts...