Word: drain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Sherwoods, the Irving Berlins. To Woollcott, whom Kaufman has hilariously scalped in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and who has been at different times his collaborator, brief biographer and boss, he is devoted. Talking to him, he says, "is like holding your face before an open drain," but Woollcott is "an entrancing companion...
...Gibraltar of the Rhine"-sodden French infantrymen came in from patrol to report that across the swelling river the German troops were busy in the flats. To stop this activity-whatever it was-French engineers had an answer that cost no lives, no ammunition. They closed the gates that drain Rhine water into the Rhine-Rhone Canal, let the river flood the flats...
...boomed as they had not done since World War I, copper was up to 10, crude rubber up 2.28 to 18.9, highest since 1937. Next day, permissible limits were hit again. In two days untabulated millions of bushels of wheat changed hands. Brokers saw in World War II a drain down which the U. S. could pour its back-breaking crop surpluses at a handsome profit (except for cotton, no war commodity...
...Lesseps' conviction for fraud after bubonic plague, smallpox, malaria and yellow jack had decimated some 70,000 laborers, and $400,000,000 of his stockholders' money had gone down the drain...
Never has either of the rivals been able to beat the other four times in succession, and this week's race may provide Harvard with the chance to send the custom down the drain, for the Crimson crew, under the able tutelage of Bolles, has run its streak of consecutive defeats of the Blue to three...