Word: fountained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousands of ravenous lumberjacks bounced on their benches for joy at the smell of the great Black Duck dinner cooked by Hot Biscuit Slim; that Johnny Inkslinger, Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down the stone-tree forests of Utah-these and similar facts are a valuable increment to the Nation's stories of its past, and better reading than any given dozen of psychological novels...
...lords and several others especially interested in peerage history, together with the Attorney General, is a standing committee of the House of Lords. Its power is very great?in fact final, so far as the House of Lords is concerned. The King, who is still the fountain of honor, can himself recognize a peerage claim by issuing a writ of summons to the claimant, but he never does so now. If he did, the House could not refuse the peer a seat; but, could?and doubtless would, if it disproved the King's action?refuse to grant him the precedence...
...Springfield, Mass, capitalists decided to build a hotel, announced that on the roof of the business building next their site they, would construct "the world's most unusual roof garden." Loam four inches deep will cover the roof. In the middle will stand a fountain. All around will spread gravel walks, flower beds, grass plots. At night, the garden will be lighted by imitation park-lanterns; in the winter it will be kept at a heat proper for flowers and grass. Tables will be spread the year round. Guests of the hotel may enjoy fountain, flowers, lights, upon...
After all, why not? Belief in a beetle god led the Egyptians to raise huge pyramids, the wonder of the world. Belief in his star of destiny led Napoleon to conquer Europe. Perhaps belief in a well tested fountain pen--psychologically soothing will lead the D-man to the broad beckoning plain of C. Try anything once...
...tells about the Webers-Rickler, Sarah, Fanny, Golda, Bertha, Esther, Leah, Rae, Rebecca, Flora, Anna, George, Abraham, Solomon, Philip, Max and Joseph, little Joseph. They lived in a shoe on Mott Street, Manhattan. 'Nearby, Lew Schanfield tended a street soda-fountain for a man named Gump. One night. Fields taught Weber a dance step he knew. Another night, the little lights on the facade of a brand-new music hall pricked out a trade-name that had become a tradition: WEBER AND FIELDS. They owned the place...