Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Designed and furnished by Ginger and her mother, the Rogers house is equipped with standard Hollywood conveniences of tennis court, bird's-eye view, projection room, outdoor bath, and such eccentric Hollywood conveniences as a built-in soda fountain. Ginger enjoys making herself chocolate sodas behind the fountain, but goes around to sit properly in front of the counter to drink them. In her studio, she makes portrait sketches and sculptures...
John Crowe Ransom said of Moore's first book of sonnets: "It is because Merrill Moore is an inevitable fountain of charming novelties that he has done what I doubt if any other living poet could do; and that is, to publish himself fully, delicately, and beautifully in a book composed entirely of sonnets, or quasi-sonnets." And the same might be said of this, his third book, ten times the length of the first...
...Hughes's qualms have lately been eased. A committee of eminent judges and attorneys (including President Arthur T. Vanderbilt of the snooty Judiciariat Society) has drawn up a compromise whereby the U. S. Judiciary's financial officer will be safely insulated from the Supreme Justices. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst expects to have this measure passed soon after Congress meets in January. The judges therefore must figure their need for the coming fiscal year, and Justice Roberts asked those in his bailiwick to do so last week. Other justices presumably will do likewise in the circuits where they oversee...
Harvard's fifth robbery in two weeks occurred early yesterday morning when a Lowell House dweller was divested of his wallet, bursar's card, and fountain pan as he slept undisturbed...
While sentencing a forger in Klamath Falls, Ore., Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst (brother of Arizona's polysyllabic Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst) digressed to criticize a bill for overtime submitted by Court Clerk Walter Hannon, called it disgraceful, intimated that it was not legal. Hopping mad, Clerk Hannon waylaid the judge on the courthouse steps a few hours later, beat the daylights out of him. Battered and bruised, Judge Ashurst summoned the Grand Jury into immediate session...