Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turk is not unkind according to his lights. He thinks it cruel to drown litters of kittens, he therefore puts them on the dustheap! In every side street you meet the cats, old and emaciated cats, cats with one eye blind, kittens toddling with unsteady step, cats with skin diseases, cats eternally scratching themselves, dying cats run over by cars on the roadside. When I asked residents in Istanbul what could be done about the cats, they shrugged their shoulders. 'Istanbul was menaced in its old wooden houses by a plague of rats; cats were necessary...
...Year's Love", "He Ain't Got Rhythm", "Police Gazette Girl", and "I Got My Love to Keep Me Warm". Most of these are sung by Alice Faye in her warm contralto. Apparently it was not considered safe to let Madelcine Carrol sing unless Dick Powell was there to drown...
Indirectly Sir Samuel implied that the Moscow Comintern was behind this naval sabotage and in retort the House's lone Communist was loud in denying that the British Communist Party would ever take inhumane steps against the British Royal Navy such that "seamen might drown!'' Sabotage by British Reds, he insisted, is purely political...
...Negroes fought the whites. National Guardsmen withdrew outside the prison walls, announcing that twelve prisoners were dead and that all had "absolutely gone mad." Governor Chandler had previously putted through the gates in an outboard motorboat. "Get us out of here, Happy!" the inmates yelled. "We're gonna drown if yon don't!" "Happy" yelled back: "It's a hell of a mess, boys, but I'm going to get you out and take care of you!" He then telephoned Washington, for not only troops but also doctors from the U. S. Public Health Service...
...once heard an old salt settle an argument about the extent of the Admiralty's legal authority: ''I tells you all that the Admiralty can do what they like with us. They can hang us, they can shoot us, and they can drown us. There's only two things they can't do to us: they can't boil us in the coppers and they can't put us in the family way." He is equally delighted to remember the disdain of one Chawbags Bayly for the microscopic difference between senior and junior...