Word: twist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coffins. Every night the bronze McKinley stands there brooding over Canton, which is as ill-favored as growing industrial towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses of human society . . . the ugly crazy twist in the mind of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz . . . the ugly, crazy twists in the minds of gunmen from many a Midland city, for whom Canton has long been a safe rat-nest between shootings . . . the stunted, poisoned twists in the minds of Canton politicians who sell these gunmen...
...Where was the statement made: "Uncle Sam would never let the Bolshevist twist his tail...
...even Dido must have been chagrined to see the gleam from her sun burnished nose reflected in the plus eyes of her stern lover. Lead pencils--that is another question. Until lead is perfected beyond the breaking point they are unessential, as unessential as reformers with a biological twist...
UNDERGRADUATE authors seem to have a flair for the shallow and the flippant. Ever since, F. Scott Fitzgerald we have had a series of sophomoric novel writers who spill a lot of ink, twist. Their words into a cross-word puzzle pattern, and sell their products under the name of literature to the thousands who affect. Sophistication because they lack understanding...
...thinned or even already perforated. The carthartic induces the stomach to contract and the partly digested food oozes into the peritoneal cavity. Fatal peritonitis results. In intestinal obstruction the intestines may be blocked by the caked products of digestion or they may be blocked by a band, a twist, a growth or an impaction of partly absorbed food. The cathartic enters and stimulates peristalsis, the evacuating motion of the intestines. There circular muscles contract progressively, and at the same time there is a wavelike motion forward. This activity may be seen in certain very thin persons. It resembles greatly...