Word: gusher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enormously popular Hall-Mills murder trial in Somerville, N. J., a syndicate press service last week introduced a reportorial method more intrusive than ever. It employed Fannie Hurst, smart Semite novelist of the "gusher" type with a working knowledge of popular psychoanalysis, to observe Mrs. Hall, widow and alleged destroyer of a faithless clergyman, a stolid-seeming woman whose expressionless demeanor upon the witness stand was baffling the sharpest gimlets in the press gallery...
...group of Americans saw the vast columns of fire and smoke ascending to the heavens. In fast automobiles they dashed to the scene. One Dunlap, superintendent of the area, realized that nothing could be done except to localize the conflagration. The usual method of putting out a blazing oil gusher by steam pressure could not be used, because the nearest boilers were several miles away. Eventually, the authorities at Bucharest, the capital, were induced to send a battery of artillery to bombard the well, with the object of closing it up. Rumanian gunners bombarded it for half...