Word: showering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that instant there was a deafening explosion. The roof and walls of the celluloid factory burst open in a cloud of fire. A hail of bricks pelted the street. Long streamers of flame whipped out of the shattered roof and flapped at the sky. A shower of burning celluloid, floating down in blazing strips and flakes, fell on the screaming mob of men, women and children for a quarter of a mile around. Those who had not been knocked senseless by the impact of the explosion, surged in terror to the river bank, plunged into the water to quench their...
...curbed his drinking with a baseball bat. In 1900 Muldoon opened his famed Hygienic Institute at Purchase, N Y., where many a celebrity, including Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey Depew, Elihu Root and Elbert Hubbard, went to be reconditioned. His chief gifts to athletics were the medicine ball and the shower bath. He and Gene Tunney annually exchanged telegrams on their mutual birthday...
Your excellent article appearing in today's issue (May 22) refers to his golf game. One day I was taking a shower following a game over the Druid Hill's Course in Atlanta and "Brother Gene" sauntered in after a very distressing round in the high go's, but typical of his rebound from distress, he turned on his shower and with that wonderful smile of his, said, "Well-there's one thing certain-I can take as good a bath as any member of this club...
Each time the storm of a great Japanese offensive breaks in North China it is preceded by a gentle shower of propaganda leaflets. Month ago the shower fell on Miyun, 50 mi. northeast of Peiping (TIME, May 1). Last week a Japanese plane zoomed through a wild anti-aircraft barrage over Peiping itself. U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson hopped out of bed into a yellow dressing gown to peer at the plane through binoculars, examine one of the first leaflets...
...married for the third time, his neighbors recalled that "we got a pretty good cowthump out of that." Throughout New England the noisy bridal serenade is a nourishing practice, going by such names as horning, shivaree, skimmelton, skimmington, warming, housewarming, sendoff, rouser, jamboree, waking-up, bellin', tin pan shower, callithumpian, callathumpin'. callathump and cowthump. The serenade includes such noisemakers as tin pans, kettles, washboilers, dinner bells, cowbells horns, gongs, drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch) shells and corn-shellers filled with...