Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of August 20 you relate the failure of an attempt at suicide, the attempter failing to drown because he wore a "cork...
...shallow bay, spread like a thin shield across the North of Canada. Into this grey harbor also Hudson sailed; and here, after spending a winter on its frozen shore, he stayed to watch his ship, manned by a mutiny, putting back for England, leaving him and two companions to drown or freeze or starve. It is idle and unpleasant to imagine how the tireless captain accomplished death; it is possible, though, to imagine him as he must have looked, sitting in a small boat, listening to the slap of water on its gunwale, watching the departure of his crew with...
...allies a monopoly of murder-murder without penalty. The right to murder Americans abroad without fear or favor, it delegates to bandit organizations; the right to murder Americans at home by poisonous liquors remains with the Anti-Saloon League and its allied bootleggers, and the right to wreck and drown American sailors and shoot up foreign seamen goes to its rum cruisers...
...Press-agent Strouse had fondly hoped? They were, with one exception, more stupid. Forgetting that the most obvious moment for such a publicity stunt was precisely the moment at which it had occurred, they sleepily made up their minds that no one who did not really want to drown would have chosen such a time for submergence. They discovered a photograph of a man, across which was scribbled an illegible endearment, in Mlle. Roseray's handbag; but no clue was offered when they perceived that the image was that of the proprietor of her night club. The Lexington Avenue...
...Cuthbert's church, Darwen, Lancashire, an actual beginning of physical strife over the great spiritual issue. When the Rev. F. B. Lauria, Vicar of St. Cuthbert's, attempted with pro-Catholic technique the "sung Eucharist," some 200 pro-Protestant parishioners rose up with loud, spontaneous hymns to drown the chanting of the Eucharist. Soon they fell to shouting extracts from the old Prayer Book, to shaking angry fists. Police, hastily summoned, got Vicar Lauria safely away, but not until a booing mob of 1,000 had collected wrathfully around the Church of Sainted Cuthbert...