Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bernard Mannes Baruch sailed for France to "boil some of the wickedness out of me" at Vichy. Said he: "I'm not going to London because if I did some one would twist it around and call me a delegate, a prophet or something." Asked what he thought of the phrase "Assistant President" applied to himself, he replied: "____ ____.* Now let's talk of something else." A reporter asked him about his reputation as an eater of okra. "Ah, okra!" said Statesman Baruch. "Okra is never good unless it breaks like a cracker...
...soon Balbo's squadron might reach the U. S., once it started, even he would not predict. Given fair weather all the way it could make the seven jumps in a week or ten days. But peasoup fogs boil up around Labrador, and General Balbo has flatly stated that he will turn back rather than foolishly risk a ship. Yet, if he decides to go ahead, he has no patience with a crew which fails to keep its plane where it belongs. His orders: "Arrive with the plane or don't arrive...
...Songs of Childhood (under a pseudonym, "Walter Ramal"), Poems (1906). Henry Brocken, his first novel. Scholarly Herbert Asquith being Prime Minister, Bookkeeper de la Mare was placed on the Civil List for a pension of ?100 a year. Though he has often had to make the pot boil in various ways he never went back to an office. Hard worker, he has published more than 25 books. Broad-shouldered, ruddy-faced, unaffected, Walter de la Mare looks less like a poet than most poets, more like a sea-captain. Unclubbable, retiring, he lives in London's suburbs with...
...prices firm. An hour later the quiet was broken. Shorts took fright: how long could the Exchange remain open? No time at all if great New York banks closed. And when exchanges close prices are usually higher at reopening-said those with memories of 1914. The market began to boil, prices to mount, traders to chime in, eager to own stocks if currency was going to depreciate, bank deposits to be tied...
...from General Electric (whose Chemist Willis Rodney Whitney built it after accidental discovery that short radio waves cause fever), figured that a draft of dry, hot air would evaporate the sweat, cool the uncomfortable patient. Mr. Kettering invented a successful blaster, using air almost hot enough to make water boil...