Word: whirls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last letter I told you about an eccentric group of Satellites here at Dravrah whose sufficient reason for embracing every new doctrine that comes along is simply "Why not?" Since that disappointing experience I have been in the midst of a mad whirl that has distracted me without giving any clue to the riddle I am trying to solve. My observation convinces me that in spite of all their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: "Do something. Get busy Fill the hour. Make every minute...
...ascended to a height of 3,000 feet in a bombing plane, leaped out with closed parachutes. A large crowd had gathered below. This crowd saw the two begin their plunge, waited to see them open their parachutes. After descending a short distance, however, the men began to twist, whirl, somersault. Screams of horror went up from the onlookers. Rushing to the spot where the two would fall, these spectators found the courageous corporal, the intrepid sergeant. They were unhurt. When they had fallen 1,000 feet, they had pulled the ripcords of their parachutes, descended easily. Both said that...
...student caught up in the wild whirl of activity before he becomes conscious of his own individuality these words come as a shock--and more shocking because true: "Practically incessant activity with little opportunity for reflection is of at least debatable value for the average student." And for the potential creative artist? "Is it reasonable to expect Creative Genius to germinate, take root, unfold the buds--to develop steadily, surely--in such soil, such atmosphere?" With anguish the student must realize that his four years at college are not favorable--even hostile--to what true genius lies latent...
...brandy and trie lamps were turned out while a responsible uncle put a match to it-and the fun, the rather terrifying fun, began! The leaping thin flames, blue and yellow like wild pansies, turned the laughing players into a shifting, shrieking, witch's circle ... a whirl of darting hands and skirls of laughter and pain. . . . Where's the dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport in which raisins or grapes are snapped from burning brandy and eaten. See example I " "The wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like a demon as we burnt ourselves...
...brisk whirl around the corner in a taxi and Buckingham Palace was reached. Mr. Baldwin was immediately ushered into the Presence; and the King-charged him with forming a new Cabinet-a mission which he was prompt to accept...