Word: rivulet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drops of water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi...
Comedy between the halves on the field made the water a joke but when the Vagabond and his girl sat down again a rivulet on the seat made it a wet, very wet joke. Amid this flood of the heavens there was a squirming and uneasiness. Oilskins from the Five and Ten covered exposed legs; the water coursed down the smooth surface of the cloth onto the backs of those in front. Gentlemen turned down the rear brim of their hats, and the water spouted into the face of those behind. The Vagabond's girl borrowed his handkerchief...
...Bachmann of West Virginia, dragged him back from his law practice in Wheeling. Manager Bachmann, blue-eyed, husky, bald, collects the small change which falls in a scanty shower from admirers of the aging statesman from Idaho. Biggest receipt so far has been $500 from an anonymous donor. This rivulet of cash Mr. Bachmann diverts to Borah posters, Borah buttons, rent, telegrams, petty cash...
...Deal but the U. S. Treasury was the sufferer. Lawyers foresaw that the revenue from processing taxes, shrunken to a rivulet since legal battles began, would now dry up completely, stay dry until and unless processing taxes are found legal...