Word: geysered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's barnlike Grand Central Palace, U. S. motormakers stage their 41 st National Automobile Show. An American institution, the Show is the springboard of the new selling season. In good years and bad, automen bubble with hope at show time. This year optimism spouts like a geyser. Thanks to defense spending, they expect 1941 sales to be the highest since 1937's 5,016,437 cars, No. 2 automobile year...
...West after World War I came Critic Bernard DeVoto. He burst upon the literati of the effete East like The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang. At the top of his form Critic DeVoto suggested a geyser ejecting a column of live steam, accompanied by deep, sometimes rather incoherent rumblings, hisses, falling rocks, lava, fuliginous fumes. Readers of The Saturday Review of Literature began eagerly to await this weekly display. Later the same phenomenon could be observed in The Easy Chair, literary section of Harpers Magazine...