Word: showered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole outdoor contingent. There would undoubtedly be insuperable obstacles but some patriot might reasonably drag forth one of the excellent figures in the Germanic Museum--which seems never to be visited--and place it on the former site of John Harvard. Probably it would dissolve in the next spring shower; but something is needed to relieve the present desolation...
...SHOW-OFF?A full bodied portrait of the man who is an addict to self-exploitation, whose enthusiasm for himself remains undampened by a sparkling shower-bath of satire...
...been advised that the experiment last year did not result in any beneficial results. Last spring, much time was used in transporting the men to and from Cambridge, the salt water was usually rough, the shells were not satisfactory, and the men had only ice water for their shower...
...meantime Admaston has been warned by an anonymous letter, that his wife is in Paris alone with another man. He hurries to the scene and arives jus; after Peggy's missing friends. He is greeted with a shower of lies, all of which he is able to lay bare. The divorce proceedings follow directly. In the court Peggy protests her innocence, and in a passionate outburst, flays a legal system which demands the truth, but will use only so much of it as is applicable to the purposes of the prosecutor. In the final scene the writer of the anonymous...
Moreover, as the report of Mr. Tibbetts shows, the material blessings which the Association is able to shower on students in Syria or Germany or Mississippi are often shared by students in the University itself. In its loan libraries, loan funds and other adjuncts of a similar nature, the Phillips Brooks House carries on a most useful form of social service work, probably little realized or appreciated by the College as a whole...