Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mark the horrible . . . photograph of me with the smart caption: "Anticipation!" You might better have used that caption on a mass photograph of the starving Italian children, to whom I have turned over the entire huge bulk of my Italian royalties. Or on a group of flood-wrecked British farmers, to whom I gave a great portion of my Brit ish royalties, or on a photograph of French blind veterans, who are happier today for my contribution. Or on many sections of the American unfortunate, to whom I give over 20% of my gross earnings as a writer every year...
...weather had come and the folks were thinking warm and homey summer thoughts. Pittsburgh discussed the drop of the Pirates with the sad indulgence of a disappointed'parent. In Des Moines, and all through Iowa, farmers reluctantly decided that the heavy rains (a regular flood) had washed away the chances of a full corn crop. In Alliance, Neb., Editor Ben Sallows of the Times-Herald griped good-naturedly about prices: "Life must be worth living. The cost has doubled, and still everybody hangs on." Out in Montana, the people talked mostly about fishing and the Rodeo. Everywhere, they talked...
...craft chairmen of the railroad brotherhoods. They had ended their six-year strike only a few days before. Under Coulter, they set to with a will to get the road operating. Engineers and firemen set ties and laid rails at trackmen's wages (80? an hour) until three flood-razed bridges were repaired...
...time of his retirement, Professor Pound became the focal point of a flood of congratulations and good wishes mixed with regret at the loss of his figure from the American legal scene. By wire and mail and phone the 76-year old giant got his due from the top minds in American government...
...verses, laboriously pecking them out a month in advance on her typewriter. Wherever she goes, her notebook goes with her; sometimes friends find her interrupting a conversation to write down some idea for a verse ("I'd like to sweep my soul in spring, And let the sunshine flood my brain"). Her verses pay her $10,000 a year, are syndicated in 30 U.S., Canadian and British papers, and draw about 100 fan letters a week...