Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since in water polo the most effective way to keep opponents from scoring goals is to hold them under water, the apparent purpose of the players is to drown each other. Rules do not limit the length of time a player may be held under water if he holds the ball or is within four feet of it. When a player feels about to drown he can give the "busy signal," i. e., pinch the man who is holding him and be released immediately. Able water polo players rarely do such a thing. Because water poloists are always extracted quickly...
...Sherlock Holmes who never fails, is a settled Empire conviction. Did he not send Crippen to the gallows, Crippen the first murderer ever apprehended by wireless? (see p. 40). Then there was Smith, "the Brides-of-the-Bath Bluebeard." To prove how easy it was for Smith to drown his brides in his tub without a struggle, did not Sir Bernard Spilsbury all but perform that feat himself?* Ever since the discovery last summer of Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1 (TIME, July 2) and Brighton Trunk Murder No. 2, most of His Majesty's subjects have been sure that...
...mother's bed fills her with repugnance and horror. Irene has been deluded into believing that her mother's first marriage was a happy one. When Sir John and Mrs. Lawrence go off to be wed at his country place. Irene slips out into the February night to drown herself in the Thames. She changes her mind but almost freezes to death in the process. It takes the combined reasoning of Sir John, her frantic mother, her grandmother, her sister and the family physician to bring Irene to face the situation realistically...
According to Dennis Enright, head curry-comber of the Stadium turf, there were actually less bottles left in the stadium after the Army game, than after any other major game this year. Is Harvard weakening? No, the reason is that the Harvard men had less reason to drown their grief than at the previous games for the Harvard team's heartening touchdown took the place of many a quart...
Unguided and yet naive the Freshman may turn quickly the page that once seemed to hold the key to unknown mysteries and find the recipes for Martinis, Alexanders, and Mint Juleps. There among the vintage of the Gods he may drown his sorrows and awake to find, perhaps, if he is resourceful, the elusive answer. And then he may know his fatal naivete led him to the solution but on a page not labeled "Sex Question...