Word: pours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Park Avenue when she unwittingly wrote a book which was to make her fame and fortune. Today, at 64, she is a prosperous businesswoman whose horizon has been considerably broadened by her responsibility as autocrat of U. S. etiquette, by the impact of 6,000 questions a week which pour in upon her from millions who have never seen Newport or Park Avenue...
...Letters from men now began to pour in by the hundreds. With an oath on nearly every line, they told him [Bok] that their wives, daughters, sisters, or mothers had demanded to know this cause, and that they had to tell them. Bok answered these heated men and told them that was exactly why the Journal had published the editorial [article], and that in the next issue there would be another for those women who might have missed his first." Then Mr. Bok dropped the whole subject, but kept on crusading against the public drinking cup and the common towel...
...most sought-after murderer then at large in the U. S. (TIME, April 12), had just telephoned the Chicago Tribune ("Worlds Greatest Newspaper"), offered to surrender for a price, was not believed. So he called the Hearst paper, had his terms accepted, and slouched into their offices to pour out the story of the Gedeon murders in a voluminous, jumbled, sex-loaded signed confession. From late Saturday until Sunday afternoon Hearst writers and cameramen had their prize to themselves. Other papers, writhing as Hearst extra after extra hit the stands, howled to Chicago's police. Detectives searched the Herald...
...ceremony over, there will be a dash for cars to join the 700 other guests under a spacious striped awning on the Du Pont lawn, eight miles away. Jimmy Duffy, favorite saloonkeeper of Philadelphia's younger drinking set, will pour with his celebrated efficiency. Meyer Davis' orchestra will play the bride and bridegroom's favorite dance numbers, Too Marvelous for Words, Tea for Two, The Lovebug will Bite You and Night and Day. Some time during these festivities, Franklin and his bride will slip away to board ship for a honeymoon in Europe. Back home this autumn...
...husband who groaned at the mere mention of giving or going to a party," Mrs. Keyes was soon having as much fun as she could stand. "It was not infrequent for me to pledge myself for luncheon engagements 20 days in succession and seven weeks in advance; to pour tea at several different receptions in the course of the same afternoon and 'look in on at least a dozen others, unless I were at home to hundreds of callers myself; to receive six dinner invitations for the same night; and to tumble into bed at four in the morning...