Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Power lines were destroyed, houses canted. The flood poured into store basements, soaking tons of merchandise. The Market Street produce centre was buried in three feet of water. The City Auditorium, fire and police headquarters, the city jail were flooded. The floor of Union Station was covered six inches deep, a log came bumping into the waiting room...
...circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts are slit to the ankle or a little higher. ¶ Colors either match the opulence of curves with magenta, plum, Tommy Atkins red, petunia, rich blues and deep greens or turn innocently romantic in swirls of Edwardian pinks and blues. Frills and furbelows on skirts pop out in ruffled peplums and billowy bustles. ¶ Fripperies to complete the rich elegance of "Edwardian and earlier" include cameo brooches, heavy rhinestone trinkets, voluptuous oversize imitation pearls, exotic velvet shoulder flowers...
...boosted it to a lesser peak, a Mount Sinai of nearly $55,000,000. The far side of that mountain fell away, steeply, right down to the Red Sea. In two years Steel got to sea level, in three years to the bottom of the sea- $16,000,000 deep by the first quarter...
...line in two, escaped. The party agreed that the fish "looked like a sturgeon, had a mouth like a catfish, leaped like a tarpon, pulled like a whale." Next morning Congressman McClintic turned up at his office with bandaged hands. Said he: "I'm through with deep-sea fishing. An old bullhead and sun-perch man, with a reputation for veracity, ought never to have taken it up in the first place...
...side. He "taps" (typewrites) methodically from 10 a. m. until one, rewriting everything at least three times to concentrate and sharpen the effervescent prolixity of his style. Like most humorists he folds inward in public but is seldom without a rejoinder when pressed. An infirmity kept him, to his deep chagrin, from active service in the War. When queried about it rather nastily once he swallowed his anger and coolly replied: "I'm awfully busy just now, but I think I can manage to give them a week or two in June...