Word: moves
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...obsolete old piece of dramatic machinery heavily revolves. Needless to say, Owner Jefferson bluntly refuses to countenance the romance, but the combined efforts of Owner Mosscrop who undergoes a sudden reformation of character, of Son Reggie who announces bumptiously that he is full of "grit and determination" and will "move heaven and earth" to win Rosie; of Daughter Rosie who indulges in tears and threats of elopement; and of Mother Jefferson, who does likewise; reduce the old man to submission and the curtain drops on general drinking of whiskey and water and interchange of amiable osculations...
...conservative students of tennis fully expected William T. Tilden to win the National Tennis Championship which was decided last week at Forest Hills. Perceiving a balance draw, with Tilden and Williams in one half, and William Johnston and Richards in the other, they expected that these four players would move smoothly through to the semifinals; they expected that the dashing foreigners-Borotra of France, Alonzo of Spain, Anderson of Australia-would fall by the wayside; that William Johnston would, as in 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, be runner up, and that he would, as in those years, be defeated...
...most abundantly, they lavished their praise; where they gleaned in vain, they confessed disappointment. The object so tirelessly sought was stimulation--the awakening of the principle of growth within themselves. Their interest did not bud spontaneously. Be the course what it might, they required more than bare facts to move them. Details which seemed to be given purely for their own sake were irksome...
...mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times . . . Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to move...
...opera nights the broad Avenida de Mayo, famed Fifth Avenue of Buenos Aires, purrs with the opulent Panhards, Renaults, Minervas of opera bound millionaires. The antithetically poor move slower, but in the same direction, stopping at dingy cigarrerias for fat pendulous cigars. From the Loterias, orthodox and legal vendors of chance, stream the fortunate, to cash their winnings, for a stall, a box, in La Colon...