Word: drown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Griffith doesn't content himself with a mere cyclone; he has to have three or four tornadoes going on at the same time. Of course when you have over half the cast to kill off at the end you might just as well blow them to pieces as drown them or burn them. We're beginning to wonder why a Griffith cyclone wasn't used in place of the Great Flood by whoever was in charge...
With this action, the present "extraordinary sessions" of the Council were terminated. M. Briand and Mr. Chamberlain, beaming at such an addition to their Locarno laurels (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 2), summoned the Greek and Bulgarian representatives to drown their differences a l'Anglaise in "a dish of tea." Smiling, M. Carapanos and M. Marfov accepted-even joked with one another over the teacups...
When dirty weather gathers in this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia...
...world over, left a trail of bleached and broken hearts behind him. Finally, he is washed up on a rocky island and the real struggle begins. One of the two women has a child by him and the other one hasn't. Finally he dies and the women drown their loneliness in mutual lamentations. One of the more unfortunate productions...
...fashion page of last month's Vanity Fair. It would do no good to rush upon her in full undress: she was old and callous and stood her ground like a man. Neither would it avail to crawl out the window, or ring the fire alarm, or pretend to drown in the tub. But now, by a system of secret signals, the distressed Innocent calls another member of the club, who enters with a shot gun or a new Vanity Fair. If with the former, the goody is shot in her tracks. If with the latter, the Cooperating Innocent lures...