Word: shower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little butter-ball, rolling around on the campus, just bursting with pride over what his big team was doing, and only getting mixed up with the marking lines occasionally. What gloriously funny things he executed out in front of the Harvard cheering section, culminating in a shower of good-feeling when the referee removed him from the water-pail! Even Old Mother West Wind herself was chuckling good-humoredly...
...tact of George Sisler, such his control, that never in his career has he resorted to rowdyism to intimidate a refractory umpire. He was suspended only once and then, in 1924, because some supporter of his, enraged when an umpire called a close decision against him, discharged a shower of bottles upon the unfortunate official. He wrote a letter to the President of the American League, was restored to standing...
...Shower of Sermons...
Last year you were good enough to note the fact that I was editing a volume of Best Sermons, and the notice brought me a shower of sermons from all over the land-which shows how far-flung the influence of TIME...
...There is no comparison," he said when questioned as as to the relative difficulties of piloting his car through the front line trenches and Boston thoroughfares." I would much rather take a chance on running through a shower of shrapnel and dodging shell holes than try and make a hurry trip down Washington Street on Saturday afternoon...