Word: leak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noon the Friendship swooped down into Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia. Her crew went to a hotel and early to bed. Miss Earhart refused to tell newsgatherers what kind of powder she used. Up early they were, and again eastward, only to land at Trepassey, Newfoundland, to fix a slight leak in the gasoline tank...
...seldom-or-never-seen Dictator kept himself within the thick-walled Kremlin, last week, while the Royal Afghans were lodged just outside, in a sumptuous marble palace overlooking the Moskva River. Soviet press censors would take care that no word of secret conferences between King and Dictator should leak out until favorable results could be reported...
Prohibition officials in southern Florida last week published a new recipe for getting drunk-a recipe that worried them because they could not see how to stop it. The recipe: into one coconut, bore a hole. Letting no milk leak out, insert two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar, followed by a cork. Refrain from touching the coconut for three weeks. Result: a tumblerful of cocowhiskey-pungent, potent, popular in southern Florida...
...Baldwin, with characteristic inadvertence, allowed the great news to leak out in such fashion that alert U. S. correspondents and their papers were able to scoop London by almost 24 hours. This caused a loss to British rubber men which London Rubber Magnate Arthur Anthony Baumann estimated at ?7,000,000. He added caustically, "10 Downing Street [the Prime Minister's residence] is really unfit to govern the Empire...
...Upon the Senate resolution against a third Presidential term (see THE CONGRESS), President Coolidge volunteered no comment. But, as every one knows, so soon as a subject of pressure is corked in one place, it is likely to leak out in another. Last week, anxious to guess what President Coolidge was thinking about the 1928 election, people passed around a remark, attributed to Son John Coolidge. Asked what he was going to do the coming summer, John Coolidge was said to have let slip: "Go to Europe, I guess, unless Father runs again...