Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately, Imperial Heaven not seldom seems to reply to Chinese prayers by sending a wet dragon after a dry. Thus 2,000,000 Chinese perished through drowning and starvation after the crops in Honan province had been destroyed by the great, classic flood of 1887-1889. So recently as 1925, Shantung (parched last summer) was inundated by a relatively slight overflow of the great Hwang Ho ("Yellow River") which none the less washed away crops sufficient to feed millions for a year...
...Ormel Hinkley Simpson, who rose from Lieutenant-Governor to fill the big chair when Governor Henry J. Fuqua died in 1926; Huey P. Long, a talkative, curly-headed bantamweight on the Public Service Commission; and U. S. Representative Riley Joseph Wilson, who tried to gain fame as a Mississippi flood controller...
Passed a bill allotting $500,000 for emergency farm aid in the Mississippi flood district...
...have struck the popular fancy recently, although usually validly interesting, have attained remarkable sales entirely unanticipated by their publishers. Surprised, and hopeful of repeating the successes, these gentlemen have responded by setting a horde of hack writers to work at mere compilation and redaction. The result has been a flood of matter that excells the pamphlets of former centuries only in that it is better bound and more expensive. Uneasy under the searchlight of critics, the public has been self-consciously seeking knowledge, but it is impossible to expect it to consume all the indigestible efforts that now bury bookshop...
...indeed an ill wind that blows nobody good. Perhaps in referring to the recent flood in London, it would be more appropriate to speak of the tide rather than of the wind...