Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitutional Government to lobby against the bill under directions of a $400-a-week propagandist named Dr. Edward Rumely. The other was famed Father Charles E. Coughlin who emerged from his retirement to make two radio speeches on the subject. Coughlin speeches and Gannett literature produced a record-breaking flood of 333,000 telegrams to Senators and Congressmen. Their notion that Roosevelt was really a Hitler in disguise reached its climax last week when 150 "Paul Reveres" from Chicago, New England and New York journeyed to Washington to demonstrate against Reorganization in person. By this time, the principal excuse...
...South, where freakish twisters were still coursing along the Alabama-Mississippi boundary and last week killed ten people and wrecked hundreds of houses, driving rains brought most creeks and rivers to flood stage, some beyond. Onto Whitestone Mountain in northwest Georgia descended a mighty cloudburst that sounded like Niagara, rushed down to destroy the tiny quarry town of Whitestone (pop. 200), where a family of 13 were drowned in one house...
Last week a new flood of scientific ideas and gadgets descended upon the musical world. Gadget No. 1 was the chromatic stroboscope. Conceived by Indiana University's Professor Ora L. Railsback and developed by Physicist Robert William Young and Engineers Allen Loomis and O. Hugo Schuck. it was demonstrated at the Music Educators' National Conference in St. Louis. The Young, Loomis & Schuck stroboscope, which sits on a table, blinks and flickers when anybody sings out of tune in its presence, makes caterwauling detectible even to the deaf...
...roaming the game-filled woods, hunting bear and deer with his kindhearted pa and a clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub reality forces him to kill...
...Note: Afraid that too many Seniors will flood Reverend Wilde with applications for his outdoor job, the Crimson suggests he try Radcliffe, lately rumored to be a den for considerable sherry tippling...