Word: gush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gush of water from a Massachusetts Hall window brought the gendarmes hotfoot upstairs to add some more names to their lists...
...With a gush of enthusiasm which will intensify the faith of the believer, but probably repel the skeptic, Author Strong surveys Soviet achievement, finds it all praiseworthy. Embarrassing inquiries she tackles with slippery candor. The Soviet Union sells oil to warring Italy because ''idealist gestures are dangerous." Political prisoners are not sentenced merely for expressing anti-Soviet views: "all were charged with definite action against the government." Convicts live and work in "labor camps" under such admirable conditions that some refuse to leave when their terms are up. Stalin has no dictatorial powers; he is just an exceptionally...
Apart from certain tears physically shed in the House of Commons last week, apart from the unprecedented gush of emotion as His Majesty's Government admitted their Ethiopian policy to be all wrong, apart from other sensational and high strung happenings in London (see p. 12), there emerged the first clear-cut exposition of what has actually been done behind Europe's diplomatic scenes to end the Ethiopian...
With everything from a cocktail to a new Scotch tart being named for Lady Alice Scott last week, the austere, technical voice of The Motor rose above the twitter and gush of London society paragraphists. Going to press too early to catch the death of Lady Alice's father which makes it necessary to transform her marriage this week to George V's third son from a public function at Westminster Abbey into a quiet, private affair. The Motor took a knowing Rolls-Royce-eye-view of the royal nuptials thus...
When asked about her B. F. history, Sally declared that that question never failed to bring out the woman in her in that it made her want to "gush". "Gushing" on, she stated that her theatrical career began in silent pictures and that she soon became a "Wampas," a title which, in her own words, signified that she was "Tops" among the promising young movie actresses of those days...