Word: scouring
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...seen. The massive door was slowly falling in-lowered by unseen sampietrini (workmen) upon a bell-signal from the master of ceremonies. Down, down it went, and was wheeled away on massive casters affixed beforehand. Came the penitents of the Vatican basilica, with holy water and blessed towels, to scour and scrub and dry the aperture. Came a thunderous peal of joy from the bells of St. Peter's, echoed at once all over Rome by 400 other church belfries. The Pope stood erect on his throne and chanted thanksgiving. The Sistine choir burst into the sublime music...
Once the immunity of nice looking men from murder becomes known, action will not be long delayed. Advertisements will appear in papers--"Wanted policemen. No redheads need apply". Banks will scour the country for nice looking messengers. Mexicans will choose nice looking hombres for presidents and bandit leaders. In fact all collar models will be at a premium, but as for the rest, Heaven help the hideous...
...business- much as large metropolitan department stores have treated neighborhood stores. On the other hand, aeroplane delivery would greatly alter the question of what news is worth printing. One of the San Francisco newspapers carried to New York bore in its headlines: BANDITS KILL POKER PLAYER; POSSES SCOUR MOUNTAINS FOR WOUNDED MAN; MRS. KERR FINED $10 FOR BATTERY OF WOMAN. Scandal may be useful for a national circulation, but " local stories" are not. If aeroplanes extend the range of newspaper circulation they may do away with "local news." But they have...
Every man has been asked to give a dollar, but more or less will be gladly accepted by the collectors. There will be no collecting at the Senior polls, which is wise, but there will be a vigorous room-to-room canvass, and the "walking squad" will scour the Yard and surround the class rooms. No man will be missed; every man should give willingly. His "tag" will be a badge of pride, a symbol of at least one day's duty in regard to the war, accomplished in a practical manner...
...back of Beacon street, that any stopping of the ebb of the tide from the Charles River Basin twice daily would injure certain channels of the harbor, but in opposition to this contention several of the most eminent engineers of the state have expressed the opinion that the tidal scour theory has no application to the conditions which exist in those channels of Boston Harbor over which the tidal prism of the Charles river Basin moves...