Word: floundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia, S. C. fortnight ago Will Pickens White, an obscure piebald, pursed-mouthed Negro of 68, leaped from his bed yelling: "Jesus, my God, what is this!" Night before Will Pickens White had taken a bath. This morning his entire skin was as dead white as a flounder's belly...
...Sensing the division in the Irish ranks, the "old fox" manages to split the leaders from Parnell by asserting that he cannot do anything for a cause which is captained by a notorious libertine. Parnell is cast out by his devoted helpers and the Irish cause is left to flounder in the confusion stirred by the divorce suit which O'Shea has instituted...
Between the conquest of Mackay-Postal and last week's deal with Ericsson, lay four years of adversity. Bestriding the world, I. T. & T. was, in 1929, in excellent position to flounder and be lost in a violent world-wide storm. Interest charges on new capital seemed to be mounting faster than new profits. Revolutions and bloodshed in South America threatened not only I. T. & T.'s property but its contracts as well. The revolutionary government of Spain talked loudly of canceling the agreement which, five years before, had given I. T. & T. its first major boost...
...longer salute his professors with perfunctory respect, no longer need he wear a coat at all times, no longer must his Coonskin hang idle in his closet; nor must the wary freshman climb into bed of an evening fearing that somewhere within the sheets there lies a two pound flounder; for hazing, too, at Dartmouth has passed in to history...
...Yellow group of cab companies did not flounder when Mr. Hertz resigned and the control passed to Parmelee Transportation Co. Parmelee was begun in 1853 as a service between terminals in Chicago, has carried the person or baggage of almost all people who have passed through the city since then. Its musty records show that it transported Lincoln and Douglas, likewise show that General Grant usually had two trunks, Sarah Bernhardt 40. Once when an epidemic destroyed most Chicago horses, Parmelee turned to oxen. Only in 1919 did motor coaches supplant the horse-drawn vehicles that swayed for so many...