Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then supposed that Correspondent Hennings had got his story from that "Illinois man" who had been taken into the President's confidence. But the leak had done its work, had revealed that President Coolidge was not delighted with the candidacy of Frank L. Smith but that he did not wish to advertise his opinion...
Then comes the Forecast whom we call the Great Democrat (and the Forecasts have always been democratic). He voluntarily gave up his baronetcy and enter. Forecast Kant-leak Kote, the frst waterproof coal on the market. And he with the help of his advertising manager, a smart young chap named Raliegh, pulled the greatest publicity stunt that the cloak and trade has known, and the Forecast fortune was forthwith made...
Occasionally the old fashioned iron extinguisher of censorship clapped upon Spain by Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera springs a tiny leak, spurts a dark smoke puff of news. Last week the official version of what occurred when the Dictator visited Barcelona was that he "received an enthusiastic welcome...
...went for another hour . . . when I suddenly saw what I thought was a bad oil leak in his right-hand motor. I took the wheel and asked Bennett to give me his opinion of the seriousness of the leak. He jotted down that it was very bad. ... It was one of the big moments. . . . We throttled the starboard motor . . . could make a little more than 60 miles an hour on the other two motors. Great...
...Leak, her Great Mop landlady, recognized Lolly's awakening and took her as a matter of course to the very next Witches' Sabbath. It was in a hedged field about midnight, and very vivacious. But village witches and warlocks are a rustic, hysterical lot. They wearied Lolly, before long, and angered her a little. When Satan appeared in a guise suitable to their company, she rebuffed his advances...