Word: shower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stretches of "fair dirt roads" broken by stretches of paving through the villages. We venture the prophecy that by the time Mount Weather is fitted for Presidential occupancy the White House chauffeur will have to go out of his way to find a mudpuddle even after a summer thunder shower. TIME'S road map is out of date. WELLS A. SHERMAN...
...sounds of a great city-a fight at Madison Square Garden, a crowd at the racetrack, trains in the Grand Central Station, Manhattan traffic. To provide a framework for the noise a girl reporter risks worse than death in interviewing a pug who takes his rubdown before his shower, chats happily with his trainer 30 seconds after being knocked down three times and finally counted out in the ring, and who looks as though he wore a size 13 collar. Other inaccuracies mark a picture which as a story seems too disjointed to entertain rustics and as reporting, too slipshod...
...revival at the old Lyric theatre in Hoboken is the first musical play that has appeared in recent times in which the chorus was not clad as if about to step into the shower. It is an actual although astounding fact that tights are being worn in this production, and judging from the box office receipts, this unusual procedure is being received with enthusiasm. Clothed figures dancing on the stage appear so grotesque, so hyper-sophisticated that the novelty of the sight has won the patronage of the entire smart set. It is but a matter of time until Ziegfield...
...rose slowly and went downstairs.... After a while, we grew worried.... There he stood, frozen solid under a shower. He'd left a farewell note--but I can't betray his confidence...
...highly spiced article of sure-fire appeal to a public which wants its college atmosphere belching fire and brimstone," say the Crimson editorial columns. Quite right; but Mr. Roberts' genial resume of Harvard life can hardly be at the same time "a shower of garbage loosed upon innocent victims." Nor is it exactly "lurid," nor yet a "diabolically clever masterpiece of caricature...