Word: drench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Acomas, remnants of the cleanly pueblo tribes, move quietly about in smaller villages, vivid as their blankets and pottery, drawn with the patient accuracy of an archeologist. Cornelian hills circle Santa Fé, where the cathedral arises like a golden butte. Windstorms smother the bishop on the plains, cloudbursts drench him among the peaks...
...with a fiendish grin on his face. ... He leaped, literally leaped, to the switchboard. . . . The switch went in. ... Sacco's hands . . . doubled into a knot. The veins in his long, thin, white hands began to rise and kept on rising until I thought they would burst and drench all of us with blood. . . . Sacco's neck was swelling to a huge inhuman size. . . . The saliva was literally pouring out of his mouth. . . . Try to compare 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit* [the temperature of the death shock] with 100 degrees in the shade when you complain of the heat...
...Terrible tears that drench and clog and sog* rather than drain...
...ships are being towed to the Potomac, off Tidewater Virginia. When practical, they will be drawn up on shore; when not, they will be left afloat. Oil, $25,000 worth, will drench their frames. And the flames, leaping and licking, will devour their oaken bodies in the last great lustration of a war gone...
...women arrived in the U. S. on the following ships: On the President Roosevelt (United States)-Peter A. Jay, U. S. Minister to Rumania. On the Conte Rosso (Lloyd Sabaudo) -Giulio Setti, Metropolitan Opera Co. chorus master; singers from La Scala to appear in Manhattan. On the Paris Drench)-The Duke de Alba from Spain descendant of Columbus; William Nelson Cromwell, famed Manhattan Lawyer. GOING. During the past week the following men and women left the U. S. on the following ships: On the Berengaria (Cunard)-Gloria Swanson, cinema actress; Georges Car pentier and his manager, volatile Francois Descamps...