Word: whisk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the sap rising in a forest is the morning flow of Manhattanites to work, as packed elevators in tall buildings whisk them upward by thousands to disperse on higher and higher floors. By the time this life has drained out of the office buildings at 5 p.m. and apartment houses and hotels are full for the night, Manhattan elevators have carried 13,000,000 passengers 95,000 miles. In the business of furnishing vertical transportation to New York and other cities, famed Otis Elevator Co. held an unworried near-monopoly from about 1900 to 1926, controlled as much...
Milton Smith Ray has on the top floor of his house a collection of 75.000 eggs and stuffed birds (some mounted by himself) which he calls the Pacific Museum of Ornithology. He refuses to admit the public but has installed an elevator to whisk friends up from the front hall...
...Farmer Carey's record lasted three days. Then Leo Oeckenfels zipped the husks off 2,797 lb. Farmer Oeckenfels' record lasted five days. Then at Audubon, Iowa Elmer Carlsen, a husky husker of 24, laid his hands on an ear of corn and-whisk! When the regulation 80 minutes were over, he had stripped 2,824 lb., an average of 35 lb. a minute. For the third time in nine days the world's record had been shattered...
...high glee Representative Eaton summoned reporters, prepared to whisk off to the White House as his "counsel and advice" a copy of the resolution which he introduced in the House last session. This resolution invited the President to address a joint Congressional session and "explain why the solemn covenants and pledges made with the people in the Democratic national platform of 1932 and by himself as the Democratic nominee . . . have been broken...
...help North Americans, and especially Albertans, embrace Social Credit, Canterbury's tall Dean will make a seven-week whirlwind U. S.-Canadian speaking tour, then whisk home to snug England...