Word: drown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked, "didn't someone quietly drown Rudolph Guglielmo (alias Valentino) years ago? . . . Chicago has its powder puffs; London, its dancing men, Paris its gigolos. Down with Decatur; up with Elinor Glyn. Hollywood is the national school of masculinity. Rudy, the beautiful gardener's boy, is the prototype of the American male. Hell's bells! Oh, sugar...
...Tailless mice, upon which, as a race, there periodically comes an urge to descend to the sea and drown by the million...
...that such a letter as this should be completely superfluous. All that I have said is evident to most children of ten upon first glancing over TIME. Unfortunately this does not seem to be the case with one or two of your new readers. It is to drown their minority protest that I speak out for the old guard. RAYMOND MACAULAY TREVELIAN...
...Varna, Bulgaria, when suspects are examined, three automobile motors running at full speed drown their cries...
...fireworks over, a vote was taken. As the Baldwin steam roller crunched, Sir Austen was sustained 325 to 136. None the less, his prestige has undoubtedly suffered. Quoth a wag: "Sir Austen may yet drown in his own pail of white-wash...