Word: gush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural gas in the earth which forces the petroleum out when wells are driven. The Lyon Act stipulates that natural gas shall be conserved, lest all the natural gas be exhausted and gushers therefore cease to gush. Oil operators have fqond that recycling the gas into the ground is the only practical form of natural gas conservation. Small operators, lacking the capital to construct recycling works, maintain that the measure is discriminatory, invidious...
...decanter will be amused by this gentleman whose dialog is so real that it suggests the use of a dictaphone. Best shot: Claudette Colbert being told by her lover that he contemplates deserting her. Our Modern Maidens (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The romantic flush of Michael Aden, the decorative gush of a Zuloaga gone mad, surround the frolics of rich U.S. youngfolk-if you would believe cinema producers. Recently Our Dancing Daughters with its imperial salons and moonswept amours caused such a flutter in nationwide breasts and box-offices that the Metro people repeated the formula with practically the same players...
...vended from the ubiquitous filling station. An ordinary roadside station may do a gross business of $25,000 a year in gasoline and oil. A city station of the same size may sell three times as much. But whether 200 or 1,000 gallons of gasoline per day gush through a hose into 30 gas tanks, many motorists must wait beside the filling station. While they wait they might as well be sold something...
...afterwards for publication about any matter appertaining to the Court. Presentee Miss Clementine Miller of Columbus, Ind., solved the problem of what to tell the reporters, last week, by divulging to them the Embassy's request. Smart Londoners chuckled hugely, coined a jest about "The Nineteenth 'No Gushing' Amendment," and finally recalled the gush uttered recently to reporters by Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau President of the D. A. R. after her presentation (TIME, May 21): "I went in early, and I was in the Throne Room from the very beginning of the ceremony...
...late Herbert S. Stone, who was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. The portrait was made two years ago when young Mr. Stone left Yale and commenced to sell bonds for Lee, Higginson & Co. of Chicago. No doubt, his mail will soon be choked with sentimental gush from shop girls, waitresses, home girls, hoydens; with offers of vaudeville and cinema contracts...