Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fowler settled down again to his morning run-and-dip, his pipe, his work, his wife. As she grew older, both knew she was dying of cancer: neither ever mentioned the subject to the other. They lived in a cottage all their lives, never kept a servant. When she died (1930) he tried manfully to go on with his old-bachelor ways, but he was an old man himself by then. His morning run became a walk, then a snooze by the fire. Three years later, at the age of 75. Lexicographer Fowler quietly joined his lady...
Bathing suits were provided for the customarily nude Harvard swimmers and chaperones representing both colleges kept a constant vigil. The entire "dip," including towels and bathing suits, was free...
...crime, and that a Manhattan cinema theatre cashier would say that Hauptmann passed her a $5 ransom bill at a date before Isidor Fisch left the U. S. to die in Germany. Hauptmann's story is that Fisch left the money with him, that he did not "dip into" it until Fisch sailed away...
...Phil Stong, writing of the sophisticated eccentricities of a Manhattanite smart set, Connecticut is a natural setting for their Jabberwockian gimblings. Author Stong's brilliant exaggeration has made even his native Iowa a melodramatic backdrop; with the iridescent decadence of a Westerner's East in which to dip his brush, he has outdone himself. His Week-End is a melodrama of gamily high life, told with unaffectedly high spirits...
...house of old hometown friends whom they were visiting. An hour later their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Pierson of Detroit, were taking them through Warm Springs Foundation. Whom should the visiting husband meet in the glass-enclosed pool-house but the President of the U. S. taking his morning dip. "By the way," said Franklin Roosevelt, grinning up from the water, "you and Mrs. Ford are having dinner with us tonight." Thus just a year after General Hugh Johnson had heatedly announced that neither the Ford Motor Co. nor anyone else could safely defy his Blue Eagle, Mr. & Mrs. Edsel...