Word: pours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was a fire in the basement of the City Hall, and soon shrieks of sirens and the roar of motors poured in the windows which had been opened to let the smoke pour out. This did not, however, deter the clerk from reading some matter-of-form letters. And curiosity, perhaps, but no surprise, moved many naive listeners when the President mumbled "The place is on fire" after each letter. As the fire sub-sided, though, they found he was saying "Placed on Fire...
...rest of the time, their substitute is alcohol. ("What is said about alcohol." begins a prologue, "comes mostly from people who stand in a Platonic relationship to narcotics.") As they pour out their bawdy yarns, their pasts of incest, arson, rape, miscellaneous sadism, the reader grudgingly admits a growing sympathy for the preacher. No scape goat ever had such a gang so unremittingly against...
...signed have to begin at once paying installments of five marks ($2) per week toward a car which is to cost about $400, and no interest will be paid on the weekly deposits. If 1,000,000 of Germany's workers subscribe, $104,000,000 will pour in to help build the KdF factory. Meanwhile, batches of apprentices, supplied with free board & lodging, are in training for the "high honor" of working in the new factory...
From the crowd, a roar: "Pour it on him, Senator...
...Began to pour out to industry the first loans from the $3,722,905,000 Lend-Spend bill signed by President Roosevelt...