Word: gush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole-hearted, but strike an irritating intellectual pose. They usually discuss ragged problems, with only that touch of originality which makes for interest. They are surprisingly readable, and they are read. Perhaps the artist has always overtaxed himself, and has thus fallen short of his capabilities: perhaps the tremendous gush with which he has flooded the presses is but the indication of the artisan, Wells...
...appeal. The audience won't tire of its favorite and the producers haven't used him over-abundantly. The double exposure escapes the cleverest eye and the exposition of two characters will hold the attention of the most indifferent. And they've put in Jimmy Durante to gush forth exuberantly and to smother his tormenters with aspirates. Claudette Colbert still possesses her cultured charm and poise but falls to convince one that she recognizes the meaning of the electoral college. All in all a shadowy theme, which often descends into a musical revue, is graced by the presence of Cohan...
...Governor, got out his short, sharp Chinese war hatchet last week. While Li quaffed rice whiskey and quaked at his friends' jokes, Chen in the flowing robes and silk slippers of a Privy Councilor approached noiselessly from the rear. Eyewitnesses saw only a flash of steel, a gush of blood. Quick as a snake's tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland and without a bloodstain showing, Privy Councilor Chen strolled out of the hotel past Japanese...
...again flowed last week from some 1,800 wells in the great sprawling East Texas field. It did not gush immoderately but poured out in a legally limited stream. After 19 days Governor Sterling lifted martial law in four counties to allow the State Railroad Commission to apply a new proration order to an area that almost ruined mid-continent fields with low prices (TIME, Aug 31 et ante). Each East Texas well was allowed to run off not more than 225 bbl. per day.* The Commission's order was expected to cut in half the field...
...week there was by no means the same interest in pipelines. The public seemed inclined to await results before it increases its stakes in the industry. And no more was heard about such wondrous projects as a pipeline to carry grain, another to transport pulverized coal, a third to gush milk into big cities...