Word: pour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Jones is in jail. The newspapers have publicized the incident. Startling revelations pour into editors' desks revealing how Jones has been connected with Moscow for a long time. Communists and Royalists stage riots. A "femme fatale," thus does Mme. Lanerre call herself, visits Jones frequently and commiserates his position. To the authorities Jones appears "with the true story of the coat, but it is not a question of a coat, it is the honor of France...
Never was an .able newsman more mistaken. By the time Mr. Pettey's dispatch reached the U. S., President Roosevelt had instructed the AAA to pour $10,000,000 worth of foodstuffs and other supplies into Cuba as a loan. Cuba's new Secretary of the Treasury said he would be glad to give every security for repayment in his power-the Cuban Treasury having been notoriously bankrupt for months...
...life I have been cursed with enthusiasm and with fishlike people to pour water...
...bound for the three little "Isles of Safety'' off French Guiana in South America, of which the most famed is Devil's Island. Her entire passenger list of 673 was below, locked in great iron cages. Over their heads was a network of pipes ready to pour out killing live steam in case of mutiny. With their blankets cowled over their heads, the more confident "grey rats" were already plotting escape. Their chances are better now than when Devil's Island first earned its dread name. In the past year a daring ring of smugglers...
...Cook is not insane. People who have known him for years will tell you so. He was born Lopez, orphaned young, raised by relatives in Evansville, Ind. He still talks a lot about Evansville. In his current offering he fondly remembers an uncle who did not pour his maple syrup on pancakes, but cut the cakes up, poured them on the maple syrup. He has trouped with medicine shows, carnivals, burlesque shows and in vaudeville. He considers his first professional engagement the act which he did with his late brother Leo in 1907. He was 17. The act was called...