Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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MUSEUM. - Matinee, "Silver Spoon;" evening, "Oliver Twist...
PARK THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. Fanny Davenport. To-night, "Camille." To-morrow's Matinee, "Pique." To-morrow night, "London Assurance" and "Oliver Twist." Next week, Mme. Janauschek...
...until the next lucky hit. Remember that "many a jest word's spoke in truth;" or to put it more plainly, many a good thing's said without malice aforethought. Just talk a little vaguely, and people (after you've got up your reputation) will be sure to twist your words into meanings which are equally new and acceptable to you. Above all, keep trying. There's nothing like it. Remember how Jacob wrestled with the angel. Do you in like manner wrestle with bon mots. Affect to read strange and uncommon books. Be unusual in your tastes...
...great deeds on land and water. I first essayed football. One afternoon sufficed to convince me that I was not a second Herbert Leeds, and that frequent collisions with mother earth were not becoming to my style of beauty. To this day my neck has not recovered from the twist it received that afternoon when I rolled on Holmes Field beneath Harrington...
...twist an aorist