Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snowing when President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge left Washington. When they awoke, a bright splash of sunlight was spilled over their coverlets. They were, like many another personage,* in the South again...
Then would the sponges be sold in the one-story brick building called the Sponge Exchange. Yellow, soft, they would be spread on the grey concrete floor like a grotesque splash of sunlight. Purchasers would appraise, make anonymous bids. If the sellers would not sell, a second bid would be made, perhaps a third. But if the third bid was also rejected the Law of the Sponge Exchange has it that the sponges may no longer be offered for sale...
...excellent though the map of Admiral Dewey, the waters off Cape San Lucas were not full of huge, hungry denizens that evening. Mr. Hoover trolled first with a spinner, then with a silver minnow, and watched the launch's wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark Sullivan, political pundit of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Just...
...yonder" the party headed, but thick Iowa gumbo prevailed. The reminiscers turned back to their automobile, hot and muddy. Not until the afternoon, when persevering, he returned to the streamlet, did the Nominee see the place where small "Bertie" Hoover used to splash...
Publisher William Randolph Hearst, splash-patriot, named newspaper after newspaper The (Boston, New York, Chicago, Baltimore) American...