Word: drown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After last week's fiasco in which our efforts appeared under two titles, Lucky Bag and Double Talk, we have mustered courage enough to drown our indignation and again dip the Parker for the SERVICE NEWS...
...dazzlingly elegant De Koven wrote 20 operettas and two grand operas. So little faith did The Bostonians have in Robin Hood that they spent exactly $109.50 on its Chicago premiere. Wrote one of its early critics: "It is always well to drown the first litter of pups. Therefore, it may be proper to forgive Messrs...
...Wild West a dentist needed no license-his whole stock-in-trade was a pair of pliers and a drummer boy to drown out the yells extracted with the teeth...
...paused and pointed. "Look," he said, "there's one getting ready to drown himself now." Down below, a young Japanese, no more than 15, paced back & forth across the rocks. He swung his arms, as if getting ready to dive; then he sat down at the edge and let the water play over his feet. Finally he eased himself slowly into the water...
...spotted a Japanese group-apparently father, mother and three children-out on the rocks, preparing to drown themselves, but evidently weakening in their decision. The Jap sniper took aim. He drilled the man from behind, dropping him into the sea. The second bullet hit the woman. She dragged herself about 30 ft. along the rocks. Then she floated out in a stain of blood. The sniper would have shot the children, but a Japanese woman ran across and carried them out of range. The sniper walked defiantly out of his cave, and crumpled under a hundred marine bullets...