Word: sweats
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Here the hero paused. Men on either side wiped the sweat from his brow and pressed a glass of ice-cold water against his lips, while the Deputies cheered with all the fiery warmth of their Latin blood...
...certain player was not giving his best efforts on every play. 'P. D.' noticed it and rushed onto the field, grabbed the offender by the neck and 'shook' him till his teeth rattled. 'Get onto the sidelines. The trouble with you is you perspire. We want men to sweat...
...locker building the moment practice was closed, ran upstairs to the doctor's room where the boy was lying down being bandaged, put one hand on his shoulder, gently ran his other hand across the boy's wet brow and remarked 'That's not perspiration, son, that's sweat'? Who was it that left a suffering boy with tears of happiness welling in his eyes because he had exonerated himself in the eyes of the man whose good opinion meant so much to him? That was the real...
...face, the soul within him howling like a dark creature brought to earth, a murderer waiting for sentence. The judge's words drone in his ears, he lifts his sleeve to hide his cheek. It is important, that sleeve. If suave, well-turned, fashionable, this agony and sweat will pass; he will merely remove his abode to a comfortable jail where he can eat, sleep, exercise, read, at leisure. If the sleeve be tattered, he will dance on the wind or scorch in the electric chair, for the rich have their sentences commuted, the poor...
...codes of journalistic ethics, Editor Mencken launched forth upon a masterly historical account of the deliverance of journalism from commercial bondage. "The spirit spread like a benign pestilence and presently it invaded even editorial rooms. In almost every great American city some flabbergasted advertiser, his money in his hand, sweat pouring from him as if he had seen a ghost, was kicked out with spectacular ceremonies. All the principal papers, growing rich, began to grow independent, virtuous, even virginal. No - - - could dictate to them, God damn ! So free reading notices disappeared, salaries continued to climb and the liberated journalist, taking...