Word: flushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already in desperate financial straits, Chicago last week found itself confronted with what amounts to a fine of $176,000,000 as a penalty for diverting much water from Lake Michigan to flush its sewers. In accordance with a U. S. Supreme Court judgment last January that Chicago's water diversion illegally lowered the Great Lakes level to the peril of navigation. Special Master in Chancery Charles Evans Hughes presented to the court upon which he himself once sat a "sentence" for Chicago's violation. That the Supreme Court would approve the Hughes report seemed certain. He advised...
...chucked his into the wastebasket with a 'Gee, somebody spilled the red ink!' How to make them care! . . . Miss Skelton teaches chemistry; she is a faithful worker for the Y. W. C. A. Mr. Mince tips his hat to her every morning; I've seen her flush at his audacity. Sometime I'm going to lock them in the Study Hall and compromise them...
...purpose and a forgetting of time and space. For over thirty years some of these men have strode along on a certain. November afternoon to witness John Harvard and the Bull Dog play their game, not only for supremacy in strength, but supremacy, in sportsmanship. Others are in the flush of expectation that comes from the first experience. Across the Lars Anderson Bridge the crowd pours like sparkling champagne down the stem of a slender glass...
...that the Middle and Far West have gone berserk over the sport. The futility of classifying Harvard and Princeton in the motley group of colleges and universities guilty of proselyting and commercialism is a case in point. It is regrettable that these two universities have been denied the first flush of exoneration that it was Yale's good fortune to receive, but their convincing refutation of the charges which were leveled against them, the one the words of President Hibben and Coach Roper, the other a statement from Director of Athletics Bingham at Harvard, make the initial charge seem somewhat...
...ever laughed at drolleries induced by the decanter will be amused by this gentleman whose dialog is so real that it suggests the use of a dictaphone. Best shot: Claudette Colbert being told by her lover that he contemplates deserting her. Our Modern Maidens (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The romantic flush of Michael Aden, the decorative gush of a Zuloaga gone mad, surround the frolics of rich U.S. youngfolk-if you would believe cinema producers. Recently Our Dancing Daughters with its imperial salons and moonswept amours caused such a flutter in nationwide breasts and box-offices that the Metro people repeated...