Word: shower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain L. I. Eagle and Lieut. W. E. Melville, piloting two De Haviland airplanes, climbed to 13,000 feet, made a heavy strata of cumulus clouds their objective. Spectators saw them disappear. Then they suddenly broke through, as the cloud disintegrated under the shower of electrified sand discharged through nozzles set in the under portion of the fuselage. The aviators described a circle above the cloud bank and their maneuver was duplicated by a clean-cut pathway through the mist. "A miracle!" cried some of the watchers...
...blows were like big stones raining. I said to myself without feeling any pain: 'When will the big stones raining on me stop?' . . . This time Wills will be the one to feel the big stones raining -lluvia de piedras, I say in my own language-shower of stones...
...SHOW-OFF-One of the best etchings of the eternal boob, whose sprightly enthusiasm for himself remains undampened by a sparkling shower-bath of satire...
...Earl Johnson (stalwart U. S. Negro), by a sun-stricken, staggering, vomiting, fainting rabble. Only 15 of the 39 finished. Just outside the Stadium many lay prostrate, nigh dead, in a hollow by some tennis courts where the sun was furnace-hot. Nurmi jogged freshly to his shower...
...falls in three being the match, "Strangler" controlled himself for 10 minutes and then hurled Stanley bodily out of the ring. Stanley was boosted back in, embraced powerfully about the head, sat upon by his huge antagonist. Two minutes later this operation was repeated. Lewis stalked to the shower, his frame, dignity and title unimpaired...