Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delhi, India, a snake attempted to board a ferryboat, caused frightened passengers to dash to the other side, the boat to capsize, 50 persons to drown...
Things seemed to be breaking right for Chris till he had a row with Beverly's father, then a row with Beverly. She went abroad, got herself engaged to the wrong man. After her marriage Chris tried to drown himself in work. He went abroad for a few months' study in Vienna, marrying Katie and taking her along, not because he wanted her but because she nagged him into it. She soon got tired of him, and he was glad to leave her for the War. Back home again, he became a hardworking, successful surgeon, an aging Spartan...
...stuff him even for the Tower but I do not like stuffed things about, even wise owls. Thence all afternoon to snoop about Emerson and say many fine things to the secretary but she, very foxy, does not tell me how well my examinations I did. So I to drown my sorrow with "Desire" at the flickers: So much drivel...
...milkmaid who became Great Britain's most popular contralto and a Dame Commander of the British Empire; after a long illness; in Oxford, England. Six feet, three inches tall and equipped with a voice so powerful that neither Albert Hall's organ nor the Coldstream Guards could drown her notes,, she was a favorite with royalty, performing many times before Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George...
...Informer" and "Her Master's Voice". Victor McLaglen's astonishing ascent from his usual dead-pan broken-nose roles to his characterization of an informer in the Black and Tan uprisings in Dublin in 1922, giving away his pal to the police for the reward, attempting to drown his remorse in a night of mighty and generous carousal, and finally, confronted with the incontrovertible fact of his treachery, fleeing the vengeance of his pal's friends, only to be shot down and to die a bewildered repentant at the foot of an altar, is a source of wonderment...