Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gets the safari past the usual vile German agent and as far as a highland camp, three weeks from nowhere. Here fever, whiskey, manslaughter, flies and love descend upon them. Rawley indulges in the first three and then loses his unpleasant self in the ample countryside. Janet and Antrim stagger home, black-lipped and full of British guilt. After the decent British interval, they marry. A ghostly negroid smell haunts them nightly, requiring Antrim's return to Africa to lay the ghost of Dingaan, a black he sent to find the strayed Rawley. Two skeletons come to light...
...specialist in surgery of the thyroid gland. He has devised methods of avoiding surgical shock by a combination of local and gen- eral anaesthetics (nitrous oxide and novocaine) which he calls " anoci-association." He studied in Ohio, Vienna, London, Paris, and has won more medical prizes than he can stagger under. During the War he was a Colonel in charge of a base hospital. In peace time he is a professor at Western Reserve University and Visiting Surgeon at the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland. The titles of some of his books suggest the range of his interests: Origin and Nature...
...that doesn't give a very good impression. Nevertheless, Trini's Spanish dance, Kitty Doner's several appearances, and Marie Stoddard's volubility made the show very presentable. We think that Charlie Mac's drunken stagger, though not drunken, deserved more attention than it was given. This stagger is a masterpiece of its kind. On the whole, we don't believe you'd count an evening at "The Dancing Girl" wasted. By the way, the final seene was omitted on the first night. It may have had some good points. The program called it "Venetia at the Ball...
With oriental swiftness that might well stagger the Western World, the Parliament of China reassembled on the overnight decision of party managers to elect a President. Peking was gaily decorated; soldiers paraded the streets; the very air was alight with hope...
Those who journey to Parnassus go at their particular gaits. Some hobble, like Carlyle. Some stagger, like Henry James. Some swing along gracefully, like Addison. Some minuet, like Stevenson. Some swagger, like Marlowe. A great, great many simply walk. By courtesy we name all manners of proceeding " style " " literary style." The road to the White House is not identical with the pathway up Parnassus. Yet those who walk must have a stride, those who speak must have a style, and Mr. Coolidge has just presented the public with a new specimen of the Presidential literary gait-in 1,120 words...