Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comedy between the halves on the field made the water a joke but when the Vagabond and his girl sat down again a rivulet on the seat made it a wet, very wet joke. Amid this flood of the heavens there was a squirming and uneasiness. Oilskins from the Five and Ten covered exposed legs; the water coursed down the smooth surface of the cloth onto the backs of those in front. Gentlemen turned down the rear brim of their hats, and the water spouted into the face of those behind. The Vagabond's girl borrowed his handkerchief...
...know, there is no precedent for the power of a governor to establish martial law in times of peace when there has been no rioting, no great disaster like a fire, flood, or earthquake, and no acts of violence except a few of the kind that are ordinarily handled without difficulty by prosecutions for assault and battery...
...LOWELL DUDLEY Rogers l.e. l.e. Stern Litt l.t. l.t. Massick Hunter l.g. l.g. Horscowitz Reppun c. c. Bergman Cotton r.g. r.g. Levine Call r.t. r.t. Fisher Kornan r.e. r.e. Shack Murphy q.b. q.b. Black Piper f.b. f.b. Minscher Conrey r.h.b. r.h.b. Wall Gooder l.h.b. l.h.b. Glickman Subs: Pirnie Lewis Flood Sewkin Handleman Levine Alter
...America are wiser in using our wealth on projects like this which will give us more wealth, better living and greater happiness for our children." He ended his address by saying: "I'm going to press a button and that will set everything going." He pressed, flood-lamps lighted on the speaker's stand. Bonneville's first power unit was in operation...
James Keen, 26-year-old photographer for the Associated Press, has a reputation for always striving for the unusual. Assigned to cover the Ohio-Mississippi flood last January, he spied a refugee Arkansas mother suckling her baby in a relief station, took a human interest picture called "Lowland Madonna" which won him wide praise and Editor & Publisher honors. Three weeks ago Photographer Keen was rushed to Warren County, Ga., whose farmers complained that Glascock County cotton growers were wooing away their Negro cotton pickers with higher wages and whiskey. Warren County Sheriff G. P. Hogan had acknowledged that some Warren...