Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rained and rained in the mountains of Tibet last month and last fortnight floods swept China. Flood waters of the Yangtze reached a new high level-52 ft, 9 in. Villages were swept away. Yellow waters spread out to cover 12%, of the arable land in the valley. A stark report came from the stricken district to Nanking: THE AUTUMN CROP IS RUINED. 23 MILLIONS ARE HOMELESS...
Heading the counsel for the defense were venerable, silver-haired, massive Garrett William McEnerney, once Jim Flood's personal attorney, and stocky, nervous Theodore Roche. Their arguments were that the first Mrs. Flood would not have adopted her husband's bastard, that Jim Flood would have given an adopted daughter all the affection and kindness which Mrs. Gavin said proved she was his real daughter. Thus did they refute old Flood retainers, coachmen, gardeners, nurses & neighbors who testified he had often called Constance May "My baby," "My little daughter...
Under the guidance of her bright young attorney, Maxwell McNutt, Mrs. Gavin told, in carefully cultivated tones, a story in the best tradition of romantic tragedy. She described her life at the Flood Mansion, her dog, her pony, the caresses of her father. Then she recounted how she was sent suddenly to the Ramona Convent of the Holy Name, her anguish, her letters which asked her adopter: ''Please tell me who I am, why I am not like other girls. . . . What can I tell my husband...
...sensational witness was Mrs. Maude Lee Flood. Sobbing on the broad shoulder of her son James L. Flood Jr. (Yale 1932), she testified that her husband never mentioned any relationship to the child...
...trial was drawing to a close spectators tried to guess what the jury of eight women and four men would decide. Public opinion seemed to be that Mrs. Gavin, real daughter or adopted, deserved some share of the Flood fortune. They recalled too that California's late Senator James Duval Phelan, another rich, lusty Irishman, but a wiser one, had provided against just such suits by a clever clause in his will- Suddenly there was a wild wave of excitement. Spectators rose in their chairs and booed angrily when old Judge Buck halted the case in midtrial, ordered...