Word: cloudburst
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...South Platte. Ever since the dam was pronounced unsafe by engineers, Denver has feared that its walls might one day crumble and a torrent of water go racing down Cherry Creek into the city. Not long ago the dam sprang a leak. One night last week a smashing summer cloudburst occurred over the reservoir. At 1:20 a. m. the mossy old dam burst...
...diction of a bishop, the vanity of a mayor, the power of a governor, and the morals of certain other reformers one could mention (but bygones are bygones), is convincingly performed. It is comforting to see that when Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are ordered to enact a "cloudburst of passion," they not only do what they are told, but do a good bit of real acting besides...
Loew's State and Orpheum--"Rain." Joan Crawford. "A cloudburst of passion...
Prime Minister Kosovo broaches a plan. Why not bring Dushan's U. S. daughter to Illyria, establish the royal succession on her, spike Marko's revolutionary guns by marrying her off to him? This innocent suggestion precipitates a cloudburst of consequences. Helen Stevens the innocent U. S. princess, John Brent a U. S. oil man, the weazely Sloat, knightly bandits, politicians, Tsernagorean guards are soon embroiled in a terrific free-for-all from which Helen finally emerges in John Brent's arms asking for an ice-cream soda and a passage home...
Under pressure from cotton mercers who protested that the Government's cotton holdings acted as a "cloud" over the market, the Federal Farm Board last week announced the coming of a cloudburst. During the year beginning Aug. 1, the Board will dispose of 650,000 bales of cotton, one-half of the amount it bought from the 1930 crop at an average price of 16.3? a lb. It will be the first real sale made by the Government since it began trying to peg cotton prices. Since cotton sold last week at 6? a lb., and since it costs...