Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sporting princes are not the monopoly of Britain. Last week, in Bucharest, Crown Prince Carol jumped into his racing automobile, clapped on his goggles, slipped in his clutch and shot off with the speed of a well-oiled wavelength. Precisely, he was contending with 22 others in a race...
...from a kitchen near Jericho, L. I. The door opened, a man entered, alarm written large upon his ordinarily phlegmatic countenance. The screams continued. He crossed the room quickly to the side of a robust woman who sat bowed over an oilcloth-covered table, screaming. He removed from her clutch a newspaper which seemed to be the cause of her extraordinary perturbation, spread it out so that the light of the kerosene lamp fell upon its crumpled front page. The woman fell silent to watch his face which, as he read, sharpened, paled with incredulous horror. The paper...
...cried, "what's that?" Coach Stevens whirled about quickly and glared in the direction Brown was pointing. He took one look, and then shouted to a colored gentleman, who was working over the engine of a motor boat, "Charlie, go get that corpse." Charlie threw in the clutch so fast that he killed the engine, but after working feverishly at it for a few minutes, he finally coaxed it to life, and made for the ominous cake of ice. He circled around it, gazing intently for several minutes, while those on the float held their breath. Finally he headed...
Hell's Bells chimed with a doubtful harmony. Their refrain told of two miners from the West who came home again to Connecticut. In the clutch of one was a $500 bill. Promptly the old folks mistook them for millionaires. These same designing elders proceeded to prove that the rich relative was insane and should therefore be pitched into a sanitarium, stripped of his riches...
...artists of the two staffs are not all the same men but they are the same sort of men. An endless parade of enchanting creatures appears on the covers ? Harrison Fisher girls, W. T. Benda girls; an endless company of interestingly dressed and undressed lovers and haters pant, clutch, embrace, struggle, strike, stare, pose or sit pensive and forlorn...