Word: showering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While this abnormal situation continued, there was prosperity, and when it ended, prosperity vanished with it. Now the California doctor wants us to go on a permanent "war" footing, to support an army of retired old people, and shower them with the luxuries of peace instead of war; and he claims that in so doing we shall bring back prosperity and keep it. Maybe he's wrong, but then again he may be right. Who knows? It's never been tried...
...Herbert Hoover was in the White House and the Cabinet was all of one sex. When Miss Perkins looked over her own office in the new building she found it satisfactory. Opening a door she stepped happily into an adjoining bathroom with full-length mirrors, frosted window panes, a shower stall with seven needle sprays and pastel-tinted tile. Then with consternation she noted that there was another door to her bathroom. She opened it and found it led into the future office of her Solicitor General, Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. Officially Mr. Wyzanski is her right-hand...
...depart from a corpse, a believer will say that the soul is immortal, but both agree that after death, the body is just a worthless piece of flesh. Why then, give this 98? worth of lifeless meat an all-metal casket costing thousands of dollars, an expensive monument, a shower of floral wreaths and a long line of hired cars filled by hired mourners...
...latter school belongs Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, New Dealer pure-of-heart and dour-of-tongue, who believes in "letting the Government do it" rather than in the Moffett philosophy of "let business have a chance first." Last week these two basic policies collided amid a shower of New Deal sparks...
...results have been disappointing. Harvard astronomers had expected the maximum show to be Wednesday night, but the shower was not large. The astronomers at Pennsylvania's observatory await the big display tonight, and it is probable that Harvard will again have observers at Oak Ridge if the weather continues to be clear...