Word: zigzag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current taste, which undergraduates are fairly quick to imitate. Byron Cutcheon's "Requiem for the Poet" contains three good lines among a number of bad ones. "April Fool!" by Stuart Ayers is the best contribution in verse, disposing the manners of the day in four effective quatrains printed zigzag down the page. "My Pleasant Celia" is agreeable and neatly versified...
Without a plan of life, people do get on. But it seems fair to say that they rarely amount to much. They drift or zigzag or run in circles. If, then, one needs a plan of life, it can hardly be amiss to devote some part of a college course to thinking...
Hamilton drew blood shortly afterwards, when Captain Bates eluded Crosby and his supporters and shot through Cumings for the visitors first score. The second followed after about three minutes, when Thompson tallied unassisted after a pretty zigzag down the left lane...
...Take a quart of synthetic Gordon gin, ten oranges and some ice; mix; get a refined lady drunk and distress her mother; get drunk yourself; when you and the refined lady are thoroughly intoxicated get into the car and zigzag through the streets until you see a woman wheeling a baby carriage from one curb to the other; then step on the gas. The chances are the carriage will have a baby...
...least, profited by the tactical lessons of the war. England's particular "bete noir" was the submarine: by observing and imitating the zigzag course of ships under attack, the Prime Minister has learned to escape the political torpedoes that his opponents have aimed at him. But he is passing now through a narrower channel, where there is less space for manoeuvering. A straight and swift course will be his only salvation. The general election, which seems an imminent certainly, will find Lloyd George at the head of a genuine political party with definite policies, or it will find...