Word: flutter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mine"-all this on an Overland Sleeper, some years agone. This memory goes with him, all through the story, like Stevenson's shadow; but when he meets the cause of it again, it apparently does not prevent him from seeing her married off to somebody else, without the flutter of an eyelash...
...Irish artistic immigrants in America are many?and it is astonishing how quickly they become acclimated. Take Ernest Boyd, for example, whose literary influence has caused no mean flutter in American criticism, or the Hacketts, or John Butler Yeats, whose death last year took from us one of the most delightful personalities of Greenwich Village, or Dudley Digges and J. M. Kerrigan, actors both from the Dublin boards. Of all these, the most thoroughly of the spirit and heart of Ireland seems to me to be Padraic Colum himself, looking for all the world like an elf, the best modern...
MEET THE WIFE?An affable little flutter into the realms of the agreeably henpecking wife who rules the roost and the roosters...
...King and his entourage entered the exhibition grounds in four State carriages, escorted by the Royal Horse Guards?a picture of scarlet, gold and steel?the Royal Standard was hoisted to flutter in the wind alongside the Union Jack. Seemingly in the shadow of these two emblems floated the flags of every dominion, colony and dependency of the Commonwealth. This medley ot flags was symbolic of an empire of 13,356,751 square miles and 449,370,000 people of all races, colors and creeds united under the rule of one Sovereign, His Most Excellent Majesty, George the Fifth...
...young miss who, in spite of growing up with all the advantages of patrician society, does everything lefthanded. Those advantages include a quartet of berating aunts who are constantly trying to jerk her into a state of perfection. Their nagging accounts for Nancy Ann's state of perennial flutter...