Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tribe: "Be Thyself!" This excellent precept is understood to mean: "Be different from everyone else!" So great is their zeal that they wear their hair long and unshorn, go without hats in all weathers, assemble to discuss poetry and free love when others are attending an athletic festival, and flood the bookstalls with tracts denouncing everybody and everything...
...flood of reports has been issuing from this complex expedition, a main point being that the Tunisian Government, unlike the Egyptian, has received its guests well, cooperated with them in circumventing Carthaginian realtors whose plans for booming city lots in Carthage threatened to interfere with the scientists' investigations. Finds included babies' bottles, sunken gold, the dust of a dancing girl surrounded with funereal pomp, a hairpin and button factory, urns, tablets, a child's savings bank, a broken flute, a bronze razor, rouge, baubles, etc, etc. The forum of Carthage, said to be the spot where Queen...
...possibility of a protest carried into the courts by the Lampoon grows increasingly probable with the flood of legal advice which has been given on the subject. Believing that the points in question in the recent issue of the Lampoon do not warrant such drastic action on the part of the police, the editors will hold a meeting today at which a decision will be reached about bringing forward a lawsuit...
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...equipped, the piece is prepared to satisfy everyone. You laugh boisterously at the love scene that is wrangled into existence by the heroine in a flood of the most scientific electric light, or you can smile with a graceful superiority, just as you wish. And be it noted that to bring about this double efficiency, the play has been handled well, both in the staging and the acting. The former department was the more notable in its success. The setting in the first scene should be preserved with the simple label, "Decadent American." The inevitable wedding presents, the array...