Word: fountains
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...brilliance of glass, the lustre of amber
from the Isles. Poetically, it is a resin formed from equal parts of
phenol and formaldehyde, in the presence of a 'base,
...Waterman, fountain pen President...
...glorious year 1779, appeared the Olney Hymns, containing dozens of hymns which English-singing people were destined to sing ever after. Some of them: Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken, How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds, Jesus, Where 'er Thy People Meet, There is a Fountain Filled with Blood...
...happened that a crowd of Persians were giving vent to their spleen in holding meetings of hostility to the Bahaists, religious sect. Allegedly before a sacred fountain in Teheran, capital of Persia, one of these meetings was taking place. Along came U. S. Vice Consul Major Robert W. Imbrie and another American by the name of Melin Seymour, in a carriage. Before the fountain they stopped and took some pictures. Immediately the crowd rushed upon the Americans, crying out that they were Bahaists. They dragged them from the carriage, cut them, beat them. In vain did native servants of missionaries...
...crusading spirit of H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan might prove far more effective if these doughty warriors wielded rapiers rather than fountain pens, and shocked an apathetic world with flying gauntlets instead of with a satire which too often goes unperceived. On the other hand, the bitterness with which these gentlemen are wont to attack beloved American traditions might be considerably tempered by a realization that swift vengeance by a biting blade would probably follow an unguarded word...