Word: planting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year Flame. From 1835 until last week, a mighty flame burned continually at a New Orleans artificial gas plant. Cheaper natural gas became available. So the 93-year flame was at last smothered...
...hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their midst. "Forged!" he leers again, as the sergeant unearths a wallet stuffed with bills. A low moan from the upper hall; the police lumber up to find another body: the ambassador's son. Detective Smith goes...
...Monaghan pondered the welter of evidence. He loosed many suggestive statements to the press. Three wheelbarrow loads of bootleggers' accounts were found in Hoff's former offices, where the racketeers operated in the guise of an investment company. They showed that in five months a single distilling plant had paid $29,400 in police bribery. Monthly bribes of $800 were recorded as paid to one police official, while another received $10,000 in one month. Said Mr. Monaghan, "I know their names . . . highest police officials have been tainted." He estimated that the liquor traffickers had deposited...
...smell of fish, fowl, game, plants, men, sea water and crude oil steamed into Sydney, Nova Scotia, last week; took on a supply of fuel oil and at once left for Wiscasset, Me., its home port. It was the Bowdoin, Arctic exploration ship of Commander Donald B. MacMillan. His months of collecting showed that many specimens of plant and animal life existed farther north than scientists heretofore have realized. Commander MacMillan shut off from world news so long, was most eager to hear about trans-atlantic airplane flights...
...other except the Amazon). By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world. Appalling, it is a place from which dense, choking creepers and great trees shut out the sun. In the gloom spiteful brown pigmies plant poisoned stakes and shoot poisoned arrows, to keep out both white men and black...