Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trick Brunhild into marriage with Kremhild's brother; and the death of Siegfried are chief incidents. The magic of ancient imaginations lives again in the magic of the modern camera as Siegfried wanders through the enchanted wood, slays the dragon, becomes impervious to weapon wounds, captures the web whereby he can change his shape at will...
...Paris saw the horses, after the usual momentary tangle, clear away from the web; they reached the first turn. Suddenly, out of the pack, reared a riderless steed, flat-eared, plunging; many women screamed shrilly; what had happened became, in a moment, obvious. Four horses had gone down. Four small men in silks lay twisting on the turf while the field swept past them, led home by Baron James A. De Rothschild's La Reine Lumière, 120 to 1, the first filly to win the Grand Prix since 1902. One of the three men was Stephen Donoghue...
...Jennings, a web-footed Canadian sportsman, decided that he would swim from Toronto to Manhattan by way of Lake Ontario, Erie Canal, Hudson River (400 miles) to celebrate the 110th anniversary of peace between the U. S. and Canada.* He expects to make several stopovers en route...
...lies thick upon the carved rafters. Since the closing of the hall, perhaps bats already flit about in the colored gloom that sifts through the stained glass windows at midday. Through the deep silence a solitary watchman sees the spider drop from the lofty roof and weave an endless web from darkness into darkness. Memory fills the hall in brooding melancholy, and protests against almost every possible new occupant of her sanctuary...
Those who still support the theory of democratic omniscience may well be disheartened. The public refuses to be in the least regardful of momentous decisions. The public mind, naturally lazy, untangles more easily the web of the latest divorce case than the threads of economic and social policy. It cannot think for itself, yet dare not let others think for it. It arrogates to itself all political intelligence and refuses to exercise...