Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NAMED LUKE-March Cost-Knopf ($2.35). Pretentious novel, compared by the publishers to their best-selling The Fountain...
...examined Mr. Harriman. "Coronary thrombosis," they said, "a very precarious condition." But the warrant was read to the patient, a U. S. Commissioner appeared, and Mr. Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain pen, he signed a $25,000 bail bond. "Is that all?" he demanded peremptorily. "Then good evening, gentlemen," and sank back weakly on his pillow...
...Henry Hoover, presented with a fountain pen and writing case by the Women's National Press Club, said she might use them to write an autobiography. ''There have been so many stories written about me," said she, "that I've been thinking of writing one myself in parallel columns, with the fiction ... in one column and the facts in the other. Stories like the one about my having manned a gun in China during the Boxer uprising. ... I assure you I never manned a gun in China or anywhere else, or used one except on hunting...
...looked easy. Shouting, swearing they demanded free drinks. The young bartender set up one on the house. That only made things worse. The boy, thoroughly frightened, snatched a revolver from the till and fired wildly over the crowd's heads. First shot sprang a delicate golden fountain from the side of a whiskey barrel and reversed the riot. The barflies rolled on the floor with gaping mouths and tore at each other's clothes. Somebody upset the lamp and started a fire just as the proprietor walked in the door...
Last week's ceremony over, Ambassador Rosso hurried back to his luxurious 16th Street Embassy with its enclosed garden, fountain, cloister. There he got a warm greeting from his red & white cocker spaniel Tobias. Said he, explaining the dog's name: "When he was a puppy, Tobias-like all cocker spaniels-leaped and played about me a great deal. One day I said to the frisky little dog, 'You would try the patience of Tobias.' I was thinking of Job -but the name stuck...