Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March "Gad-fly" one of these deep-biting and blood-thirsty creatures? Hardly. It opens with a moderate and sensible article on "Peace-Time Responsibilities of Pacifists." Believing that war is preventable, Mr. Wood draws an interesting analogy between the flood-prevention work of a civil engineer on the banks of the Mississippi, and the various opportunities for prevention work which are now open to lovers of peace. The tone of the essay is conciliatory and well-bred. It neither barks nor bites...
...flurry in the House, legislation was again brought to a standstill by the refusal of Acting Speaker Campbell and Mr. Mondell to take up the Nitrates Bill. The joy of hilbustering is evidently infectious, for from the House it spread to the Senates where Senator Heflin, stemming the flood of some fifty House bills yet to be passed, arose and began a sympathetic strike. Fortunately the legislative jam was cleared up and once more the bills poured through the Congressional hopper...
...pages of the newspapers by the spell of Egyptology. Its influence on literature of a more lasting sort depends on the papyri yet hidden in the tomb; more details about the captivity of Israel--Tut-Ankh-Amen may have been the persecuting Pharaoh--and a new version of the Flood are among the discoveries anticipated. And the "Aten hereay" with Tut-Ankh-Amen as the religious hero, may open a literary field as stupendous as that of the Trojan...
...masonry, appears at the side of the stage to the left of the audience, showing a casement window and steps leading up to a "Dutch" door. The stoop swings around the corner of the house at the left and back of the stage, where an unseen window admits a flood of sunset light at the end of Act 1. The end of a table covered with white cloth appears between the back wall of the stoop and the house. A large window in the back wall of the stoop reveals a grape-vine trellis in the yard, with the Catskills...
...summary: SECONDS NOBLE AND GREENOUGH Palmer, Whittall, l.w. r.w., Whittemore Reid, c. c. Wright Peirson, Lounderbach, r.w. l.w., Spalding Bohlen, l.d. r.d., Partridge, Dunlop Nichols, r.d. l.d., Walsh, Sommers Dole, g. g., Flood...