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"The boys may have to use that any time they're up and a Boche comes at them." "Zooming," he went on to the pupils, "is rising and falling in a series of abrupt curves like those in a roller-coaster railway. It is a very useful stunt to be master of, for it enables one to rise quickly when confronting a field barrier, or to get out of range of a Hun machine gun."
But that was in the days of the old-fashioned square dance, which was the fat man's friend among dances, and also of the old-fashioned two-step, and not in these times when dancing is a cross between a wrestling match, a contortion act and a trip on a roller-coaster, and is either named for an animal, like the Bunny Hug and the Tarantula Glide, or for a town, like the Mobile Mop-Up, and the Far Rockaway Rock and the South Bend Bend.
Machine guns were now opening up on them, and once the burst of fire came so close that Jack began to "zoom." That is he sent his craft up and down sharply, like the curves and bumps in a roller-coaster railway track. By this time the leading plane gave the signal for the return, and, thankful enough that they had not been hit, Jack swung about. But the danger was not over.
Resulting from this roller-coaster action many of us had queasy stomachs and were not very happy though it was heartening to see that all ranks were treated equally by the elements. As the days passed the seas became less turbulent but other ships in the convoy, merchant and naval alike could still be lost to sight as they wallowed in the troughs.
"I'm sure I'm getting sea air down to the beaches and mountain air out to the Blue Hills. And as for excitement if you can find anything more wildly exciting than it was yesterday when Miss Marie and I took the widow and the spinster lady on the Roller-coaster just show it to me; that's all!" Billy laughed. "They told me about it Marie in particular.
"I'm sorry, sir!" said the White Linen Nurse. "I'd like to have seen a roller-coaster, sir!" Just for an instant a gleam of laughter went brightening across the Senior Surgeon's brooding face, and was gone again. "Rae Malgregor, come here!" he ordered quite sharply.
"Maybe they've got a roller-coaster or a merry-go-round somewhere. Let's um explore." By this time the dancing had begun in earnest and the platform was well filled with whirling couples.
They stand for an instant, hands locked, looking back at the long roller-coaster swoop of the Avenue, listening to the roll of tired wheels, the faint horns, the loud horns.
Would there be a a roller-coaster? I've never seen a roller-coaster!" "Eh?" laughed the Senior Surgeon. "Oh, I'm going, too! I'm going, too!" piped the Little Crippled Girl. Most jerkily the Senior Surgeon pushed back his chair from the table and swallowed half a cup of coffee at one single gulp. "Going three, you mean?" he glowered at his little daughter. "Going three?"
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