Word: bent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., June 7--For the second time in eight days, the academic quiet of New Haven was shattered today by flying botties. This time, however, the only casualty was a bent automobile, mudguard, and no arrests were made...
...wilderness of flowers. Their meek quarry fled through the brilliant fields; behind him, silent and happy, the pursuit increased and came more quickly; a wind stiffened in their flags and made the starry flowers bend across the grass. The white hounds leaned upon their leashes and the bowmen bent their bows. Crouching in a garden at last, the prisoned unicorn gazed upon his followers. They levelled spears amid a thousand flowers...
Johnny Boivin, the champion "violon-neux" of the province, bent to his old fiddle and played his songs. They were none of them insipid tunes or silly ones? he played the songs which women sing for spinning, the slow songs sung in the fields by men working, songs for stars and ploughshares...
...like bent 25 German druggists reached Manhattan last week on the North German Lloyd Liner Muenchen...
...reporters were absolutely bent, baffled, and bewildered. They said that Famed Conjurer Dunninger was the legitimate successor to Harry Houdini. One man who had watched the exhibition of miracles was disgusted by them. He was Charles E. Davenport, the manager of Nino Pecoraro, a medium who had issued a challenge to Dunninger for a "phenomena producing" contest. After watching the things which Dunninger did, Davenport withdrew his challenge because Mr. Pecoraro was alleged not to be in the right psychic condition...