Word: shower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...depends. The 68-foot cruisers have two cabins, an outside cabin with an awning and an inside cabin whose leather benches can be made up as bunks at night. They have a little dining-room with benches on four sides, a bathroom up in the bow with a shower in it. The Elco Co. makes the same sort of boat for prices running from...
There are those, on the other hand, who look with bitter envy on the Nizam. Imagine the feelings of a starving poet in his Greenwich Village garret, when he reads of this princely exploit. What books could he shower upon the world, had he only the power! He can comfort himself with the thought that the Nizam's works, at their present price at least, will probably not sell widely outside of Hyderabad...
...tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami - all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little paper is not facetious. Every week it contains a good solid column by Arthur Brisbane and an editorial by myself. When I do not have time to write one, I quote from...
Herr Bürgermeister Petersen of Hamburg ducked and dabbed at his coat amid a shower of fizzing champagne droplets. "I christen thee New York!" cried Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of New York's mayor, and laughed because she had flung the champagne bottle with too much violence. Simultaneously two bands blared Deutschland Ueber Alles and The Star-Spangled Banner...
After an hour and a half Flyer Bettis regained consciousness. Shots of pain told him that his left leg was smashed. He tried to lick his lips and another shower of agony told more: both jaws broken. Slowly he freed himself from his safety belt. Twenty-four hours crawled...