Word: poured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time has come for a show-down. H. G. Wells has lent his name to the cause, while Clarence Darrow has come forth as counsel. The press is filled with the story and the whole country is agog. To add fuel to the fire, Bryan will pour forth his oily words...
...most important of these is the plan, which will be tried next year, of having regular office hours for the advisors. Then, at least, the Freshman, thirsting perhaps for nothing more than information as to "snap" courses, will have a refuge to which he can go and there pour out his troubles. Although in effect this plan shifts to the Freshman the burden and responsibility of making the first contact with his advisor, it is a distinct forward step in the difficult problem of helping the first-year man to adjust himself to his strange environment...
...Shaw will undoubtedly soon realize, is with the Englishman's innate fear of giving offense. How can the would-be contributor bear to see one great dramatist memorialized in a National Theatre while the other goes unrewarded? Rename it the Shakespeare and Shaw National Memorial Theatre, and contributions will pour in by thousands...
Into the offices of the Graphic began to pour solutions of surprising excellence. Judges shook their heads, astonished. Publisher Macfadden read a copy of the Home News, muttered, growled. Someone, he saw, was feeding his animal, the Public, between meals. He instructed his counsel to appeal for an injunction restraining the Home News from publishing answers. "Unfair solicitation of the customers and circulation of the Graphic." That was what Lawyer Schultz of the Graphic called the behavior of the editors of the Home News...
...Nurmi had a small shed of his own in which he put a stove with stones, heated red hot, on top. He used to go in and take his bath. He'd get up on a shelf above the stove and pour water onto the stones. After he got well steamed up he would take a--what is it you say?--a 'bouquet' of sticks and flay himself...