Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vicious spout swung inland from the bay off Swansea, Wales, struck a hillside, gutted a row of houses, washed 8,000 tons of earth, rock, debris and human beings to the bottom of the slope. Once a waterspout hit a White Star liner headon, doused the crow's nest, slopped tons of water on the decks, wrecked the bridge and chartroom, flooded cabins. Five years ago Bordeaux housewives reaped a harvest of small fish swept up from the River Garonne into a water twister, carried inshore and deposited wriggling in the streets...
...barn with its dirt floor. To protect the 70 cows from flies there were electrically-charged copper screens. When a fly tried to get through the ½in. openings, there was a little flash, a ping -and the dead fly fell into a metal trough at the bottom of the window. Each cow had its individual drinking fountain, which spouted water when nuzzled. Cows were cooled by electric fans, clipped by electric razors, milked by electric machines. The hay they ate was hoisted into the trough by electric motors. The milk they gave was immediately electrically cooled...
...Charter Day parade came to a momentary halt, a moppet in white scampered up to New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, asked: "Will you please sign your name on my pants?" While the crowd gawped, Governor Lehman squiggled his signature across the boy's bottom...
Whose racing stable will lead the 1936 list of winners is a question that will he decided next Jan. 1. Whose stable will appear at the bottom of the list will probably never be known, but a likely candidate will certainly be John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin, famed sporting alderman of Chicago. Mr. Coughlin races a stable of 29 horses in and around Chicago. Last week at Arlington Park a Coughlin-owned filly named Roguish Girl won a race. The fact made banner headlines on Chicago sports pages. It was the first race won by a Coughlin entry this year...
...hides, and those only temporarily. Slaughtering of cattle in drought areas increases the immediate supply. No trade was more agog about the commodity boom last week than the butter market. Like eggs, butter has an annual cycle in prices and production. Production of both butter and eggs touches bottom in November and December, then rises to a spring peak, eggs in May, butter in June, when pastures are usually greenest. Consequently butter prices are generally lower in summer than in winter. But in the past eight weeks butter has gone up, not down, faster than at any time since...