Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl Galatea from the London slums, and was growing as fond of her as of a stray Puppy-Rogers' scheme was to get settled in Michilimackinac, then start west on a three-year expedition to the Pacific. The Northwest Passage he hoped to find was not the undiscovered outlet of Hudson Bay but an overland route. He needed money and no money was forthcoming from his English sponsors. His American superiors, Sir William Johnson and General Gage, feared and disliked Rogers, did everything they could to hamstring him. While Langdon Towne and a small party set off to find...
...better worth projecting on them than badly manufactured, pirated "toy" reproductions of antique features or travel films, amateur productions made with miniature cameras, "educational" releases. Recently U. S. owners of miniature projection machines have encountered the first move to bring coherence to the minimovies by developing them as an outlet for newsreels. It was News Parade, a group of three newsreels manufactured and released by Eugene W. Castle for sale in department stores throughout the country...
...scholars in Cambridge learn how to read and speed but not the science of upbringing. Perhaps the public feels that Harvard men will make poor fathers, or no fathers at all, after seeing them emerge from Widener, bleary eyed and exhausted. Perhaps it feels students should have some other outlet besides riots for their pent-up emotions. Perhaps it doesn't feel...
Before Richard Whiting and his Eastern ways had time to turn the whole county into a mollycoddle community, the Civil War gave the men of Phinizy County a real outlet. Those who did not fight with Forrest fought with Morgan. Even after the War petered out, some of them had not had their bellyful. When Lafe Potter ran off with Mersery Pillow, five of the Pillow clan went to get her back. When the shooting was over Lafe turned to his bride and said casually: "I got four of the bastards." Said Mersery: "I'm glad...
...never allowed the joys of childhood companionship, he at last seeks writing as a means of unburdening himself. At first he writes for newspapers, magazines, or any sort of publishing business he can find willing to accept his work. In this venture he finds no outlet, and when he meets the one woman whom he can really love, he agrees to her proposal that they cheat life by taking their own lives. It is only when he realizes that by exposing his soul, by writing his innermost thoughts and emotions, he can find happiness, that he sees the folly...