Word: gushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately some blundering student happened along in the meantime and pumped the pump handle in passing with the same indifference that he would pull a fire alarm. But when he saw the foamy liquid gush forth into the trough, he let fly all thoughts of indifference, inertia, and psychic income, and lunged toward the dwindling stream of beer...
...used by C. B. & Q. for publicity. With its engine cut too low for the glide, the little monoplane was suddenly caught in the vortex of air caused by the stream-liner's passage. Out of control, it banked sharply to the right, crashed in a gush of flame. When rescuers arrived, "the bodies were already burned beyond recognition...
...money to weekly guest stars, Miss Parsons is supposed to bring ungenerous cinemactors into line through their fear of unfavorable publicity in the Hearstpapers. One of Hollywood's most derided and dreaded characters, chunky, many-chinned "Lolly" Parsons gives in her column an astounding daily show of uncritical gush. Great & good friend of William Randolph Hearst, Miss Parsons also professed great affection for Hollywood's grande dame, Cinemactress Mary Pickford...
...silver dollars, in color from flaming red to black & blue. Bruises cause transient purpuric blotches called ecchymoses. Typhus fever causes dotty purpura or petechiae. The kind of purpura which interested Dr. Fishbein last week was thrombocyto-penic purpura. Victims of this condition are constantly in danger of suffering a gush of blood from any of the orifices of the body. Without apparent cause or warning blood is likely to accumulate in a puddle somewhere under their skin, in the brain, in the adrenal glands. Disease renders capillary walls abnormally permeable to blood by simultaneously thinning the blood and capillary walls...
...quarantine in an old-fashioned hospital in Odessa he was glad to be leaving Russia. Nevertheless the U. S. S. R. impressed him: the kindliness of the people, the devotion of the minority of patriots who are working to bring the Russian experiment to success. Says he: "Only idiots gush about Russia. Only idiots pretend that life there is easy . . . whomever...