Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last week, U. S. citizens could reasonably assume that Arizona's pentecostal Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst was a nonpareil when it came to dressed-up language. Advices from Oregon showed that it ran in the family...
...first got elected to the bench in 1934, tried vainly in 1937 to join his brother in the U. S. Senate. He continued to ornament Klamath Falls with his ten-gallon hats, his string ties, sideburns, frock coats, morning trousers, and the fanciest flow of language west of Henry Fountain Ashurst...
Littlest worries: losing your fountain pen, growing up, having bad dreams, not finding a job after leaving school, getting bad marks in conduct, not sleeping at night, robbers, choking, getting married, kidnappers, world coming to an end, witches...
Back as a leader in the bar-fixture business, new but important in the soda-fountain business, B-B-C nevertheless depends on bowling and billiards for three-fourths of its $13,745,522 (1939) sales...
...theoretical physicist exiled in Ireland. At Cornell, Dr. Bethe lives with his wife and mother in a cottage in Cayuga Heights. He does most of his work in an easy chair in the living room. Tools : a stack of reference books, a batch of paper, a slide rule, a fountain pen, a powerful brain...