Word: rockingly
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...dance began. Charlestoners, male and female, from Akron, Cleveland, Canton, McKeesport, Pa.; from Detroit and Toledo; from Wichita, Kan., Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Davenport, Topeka, Omaha, and Waterloo, la.; from Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, Joliet and Peoria, 111.; from Charleston, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa, Okla., branded their shinbones and burned their heels, clutched each other, pumping, weaving, while the fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys...
...February, Rowe and Greenlees were astonished to find in the rock surface a rectangular bed of plaster of paris. There seemed to have been little attempt at concealment because with the mud and small pieces of rock conglomerate brushed off the plaster was instantly recognizable. The rectangular shape seemed definitely to show that a stairway was cut into the rock and had been filled up to the surface with plaster The tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings had just such an entrance but it was filled only with debris. At Thebes, however, there was not so great...
Rowe and Greenless decided that the presence of the false stairway denoted the presence of a true entrance not far away. Brushes were applied to the rock nearby and every particle of dust and mud was removed. Nothing was found. Then knives were procured and the surface was scraped. Finally the efforts of the workers were rewarded, by the finding of a block of grey limestone set into the same kind of rock in the platform. The block was fitted so carefully that the edge of a razor could not enter the cracks which were all but invisible even after...
...shaft went still deeper. Workers were lowered in wicker baskets from the surface to cut out the blocks. The rock far below proved to below proved to be less solid than at the surface and big chunks flaked off and were dislodged by the baskets. Finally on March 7, the 100 foot mark was reached and still the bottom was not attained. Tapping on the wall the workers discovered a hollow sound, however, and correctly assumed that the shaft went down by one of the great chambers...
Knives and grinding instruments were again brought into play and a tiny hole was started on the spot which sounded hollow. The nearby rock was chipped away with great care and flashlights were...