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Word: fountains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopelessly away. In America's Sweetheart, however, when Jack Whiting sees that his girl friend (Harriette Lake) is about to throw him over for a big cinemagnate, he breaks into a sullen soft-shoe dance with Gus Shy, the comic, and then irritably pushes Miss Lake into a fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Japanese Diet last week Deputy Tokuho Mitsui (not a member of the "House of Mitsui," richest in Japan) was stabbed in the arm with a fountain pen. A dagger flashed. In the wild melee several heads and hands were slashed. Other heads grew lumps after the police poured in. When the fight first began, Acting Prime Minister Baron Shidehara was in a nearby room. Without an instant's hesitation he walked out of the Diet Building surrounded by his six new plainclothesmen (all jiu-jitsu experts), climbed into his limousine and drove home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Slip of the Tongue | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...explosion of a dynamite bomb near the public aqueduct. Potent, the explosion tore a four-foot hole in a watermain, injured four passersby, whooshed an 18-lb. piece of masonry over a block and a half of houses. All day long a 15-ft. fountain spouted from the hole, but Secretary of Public Works Lombillo Clark said he would soon have that fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who's Afraid? | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...Henry Fountain Ashurst has represented Arizona in the U. S. Senate since that territory became a State in 1912. His tall sleek figure, his shiny black hair, his resounding rhetoric, his theatrical by-play with black-corded glasses have caused many an ignorant observer to mistake him for a onetime Shakespearean actor. His secret hope is to win future fame as a great diarist of the current era. Today he is the senior Senator from the Southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Appendix & Heel | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...Simultaneously the third wave of the revolution was sweeping across President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena's famed Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: 15-Hour Coup | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

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