Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon strolled a civilian with a bomb he thought was a dud and was carrying as a present for his wife. Another Piccadilly stroller on a bright moonlit night wore a black jacket and a black Eden hat, carried an umbrella sedately over his head against the shrapnel shower...
...window in his top-floor hotel room while a squadron of German bombers droned overhead. He was talking with two naval officers and his assistant, Australian Stanley Johnstone, when there was an explosion. The whole side of the hotel collapsed. Down through four floors dropped Newsman Murchie in a shower of timbers, bricks, soot, debris. He climbed out of the wreckage with his assistant. They dug the hotel's pretty receptionist from under a pile of timbers, extricated one naval officer and put him in an ambulance. (The other officer was dead.) In a hospital where he was taken...
...complaints when Baiter sounds soft. Sample of the stuff Ivey likes to hear: "How does horse racing get away with it? ... A horse comes in . . . among the also-rans in one race and in the very next he finishes so far ahead that he's through taking his shower before the place pony can even stagger home. Or vice versa. At least vice...
Most of the water to be squeezed out of M. & O. (in receivership since 1932) will shower on Southern Railway, owner of 94% of the ailing road's common, which will be wiped out. For $7,839,500 worth of M. & O. bonds Southern gets 93? on the dollar. To pay Southern off, G. M. & N. borrowed $7,500,000 from RFC last month, will get another $2,000,000 to pay additional merger expenses...
...Maxwell Anderson's Pulitzer prize play is more than mere entertainment; it is as painfully instructive, as disillusioning and tragicomical as life itself. Marriage, you are told, is not a love again but a pile of grocery bills; and the revelation chills you to the core like a cold shower...