Word: strides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...partner, Thomas W. Lamont, walked the common plank with Mrs. Lamont ; and both smilingly endured flashlights. Since Mrs. Owen D. Young is ill in Arizona, her tall, potent husband, Chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, mounted the Aquitania alone, with his loose, powerful stride...
...With the first sense of uneasiness that her dead had brought to her she shifted her load so that it would no longer gaze downward and started forward again. But with an almost animate persistence the body moved with each stride, and gradually the round, blank silhouette again eclipsed the miniature skies through which she waded. Now her anger rose, and she splashed heavily through the water, shattering and dispersing its reflections. . . . The air about her broke into a shrill ominous whine, and a black cloud of mosquitoes enveloped her, settling like dust on head, shoulders, and legs. Involuntarily...
Round 8. The Twentieth Century Limited pulled into Grand Central Station, Manhattan, and a man whose figure and stride made other travelers look like weaklings, smiled at reporters and told them to follow him into the Hotel Biltmore. There, the onetime Rooseveltian Rough Rider named Robert Wright Stewart sat in a little blue chair and said: "In the third place, I sincerely hope that Mr. Rockefeller is having a very nice time on his trip abroad...
Staccato footfalls beat a brisk tattoo through the city room of the New York World, down the long rows of worn old desks. A big, vociferous typhoon with red hair, blue shirt, trim tailored suit, swept with a round-the-world stride through the office, greeted a dozen reporters by their first names and vanished through a far door, leaving a strange quiet 'behind him. Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of the World and genius of its flying columns for eight years, was leaving...
...first quarter was marked by fumbles and miss-plays on the part of both teams. The Crimson quickly fell into its stride beginning with the second quarter, and continued on the offensive throughout the remainder of the contest...