Word: plumb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total abstainer from Boston parties to deny that there is not at least a germ of truth in the picture which Miss Lowella Cabot paints in the Advocate of the Harvard man off on a tear in Boston. Overdrawn the picture is, of course, but no more off the plumb line than is necessary for good satire...
Over Greenwood, Miss., a long, streaming V of wild geese beat their way north from the Gulf of Mexico into a thunder storm. Flares and crashes tore up the smooth formation. Geese swooped for coverage. Twenty-six dropped, plumb, dead, onto the farm of Robert Townes...
...when it voted, 26 to 23, to table a resolution demanding the dismissal of Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, executive secretary and confidential adviser of the Governor (TIME, March 7). Talk, however, still comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...
Governor Henry Simpson Johnston of Oklahoma, who used to lecture on the religious aspects of the Ku Klux Klan, is a profound student of ritualism, spiritualism, occultism, etc. One day he found a married woman, Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, who could plumb the depths of Rosicrucian* philosophy with him. Together they plumbed...
Historians wracked their memories for a similar incident in the whole chronicle of parliaments. The sensation at Belgrade, last week, cannot be put in words. Yet in the Balkans incidents almost as scandalous occur not infrequently. Therefore, last week, "nothing happened"-except that two investigations were started: one to plumb the alleged iniquities of the police; the other to apprehend those responsible for introducing a naked man into Parliament...