Word: pontchartrain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level so floods would wash over them. Still a fourth protection was devised, the Bonnet Carre Spillway not far above New Orleans, to pour flood waters out of the main Mississippi channel into Lake Pontchartrain which is virtually an arm of the Gulf. Finally the whole river was shortened 100 miles by cutting off numerous loops and meanders, so that the flood waters would go down faster instead of piling...
...Louisiana cabin door, then admitted she had borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford, her pious, abstinent, pale-eyed cuckold, after a good tussle with the Holy Spirit, last week pulled in his horns, took Effie and their two young sons across Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans' Charity Hospital to claim the babe...
...little Jacobs house in Bay St. Louis, Miss, there was vast commotion one day last week. Telephone and doorbell buzzed like mad, neighbors flew in & out, tongues clacked incessantly. Mrs. Jacobs rang up her husband at his tollhouse on the Pontchartrain Bridge, spoke breathlessly. Stuttering with excitement, he relayed her message by long distance to his two daughters at Louisiana State University, who shrilled the great news through their dormitory. It was three days before Christmas. It was Mrs. Jacobs' 44th birthday. It was also her 22nd wedding anniversary. But none of these pleasant milestones was the cause...
Captain Clayton straightened up from his fiddling with the device. The sergeant barked: "Light!" Instantly the searchlight bored a narrow, dazzling hole through the darkness over the sea. Three miles away, one mile from where it was last seen, the Pontchartrain gleamed in the centre of the beam...
...searchlight went out. Again & again, while the Pontchartrain moved invisibly to new positions at sea, the searchlight flashed on to impale the craft on the beam's end. Nineteen times the beam struck the cutter amidships. Once it caught only the stern...