Word: streaked
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...impudently near the truth, that it was hard to resist them a place in any honest lexicon." U. S. eyes may note examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary an exemplar as the late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor or other person" (1926); "Wow. A 'great success'" (1927); "Zipper" (1925); "Vamp...
...still greater kudos. Coaches' fight talks bored him. Once, during time-out in the middle of a furious Army-Navy game, he shocked his teammates by calmly asking where the football dinner was to be held that night. But sport writers still remember how he used to streak down the field to catch Elmer Oliphant's forward passes; how he scored 27 of 30 points against Notre Dame; how he left the Academy, a high-standing graduate in engineering, with four letters and two sabres for all-around athletic prowess. Athlete Vidal went to the 1919 Inter-Allied...
Sharkman Young confirms cinemagoers' suspicions that it would be almost impossible for a swimmer armed only with a knife to kill a shark. The shark, which swims 40 to 50 m.p.h., would probably be off like a streak if he saw a man diving toward him. Even if the man got close, it would take a powerful and lucky thrust to penetrate the shark's tough hide and cartilage, pierce its two-inch heart...
...Army players. But no scrub could have impersonated Halfback Jack Buckler vividly enough to prepare Yale for what the real Buckler did last week. Repeatedly swift-footed Buckler took the ball on the run, drew back his arm as if to pass. While the Yale defense scattered. Buckler might streak around end. Or he might pass, while sprinting like a jackrabbit. Seven times his passes plumped into Army hands for total gains of 148 yd. Twice they made touchdowns and once they carried the Army within plunging distance of another. Between times Buckler kicked superbly, once sent a punt sailing...
Author Schauffler stresses the fact that Brahms had a strong peasant streak which accounted for his constant use of folk-songs, for the terseness and simplicity of much of his music, for the peasantlike economy with which he used the same themes over and over again, elaborating on them with the imagination of a genius. Brahms never married, never defied convention as did the overromanticized Rich ard Wagner. But he was no ascetic. His mother bred in him an Oedipus complex which never quite squared with the notion of women that he got while playing the piano...