Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Courageous, chivalrous, when he ran for the first of his three Congressional terms seven years ago he talked from a wheel chair, said of his opponent: "No knightlier spirit than Edgar Watkins ever went to worthy combat or shivered lance at Camelot or Stirling." Himself lost in Camelot's misty lore, Knight Upshaw may often think in terms of questing a Holy Grail...
...only is Judas more superfluous than a fifth wheel on a cart, but he is an absurdity, explicable only as a manifestation of the hatred felt by Gentile Christianity against the Jewish Christians during the second century...
...epithet applied between 1880 and 1910 to all manner of aged men (British statesmen, pioneer missionaries, U. S. village doctors) ; now obsolete. †The modern "time-clock" is an ingenious contrivance shaped somewhat like a bicycle wheel, with a revolvable indicator pointing to various numbers assigned to different persons respectively. If person No. 6 "punches" the indicator into his slot upon his arrival at 10:30, the time is so registered; and the boss arriving later knows his office boy was tardy...
...Wheel" whooped a conspirator, whirling back. "Fulneral! We-all gwina play Fulneral...
Three blasts of a whistle . . . "Put your wheel hard over!" . . . bells clamored full speed reverse . . . a red flare gashed the night . . . the crash...