Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats a row of verminous flats. To the right rises a grimy coal chute. And all across the front stretches a pier-end from which urchins dive with a splash into what normally would be the orchestra pit, but which gives every illusion of being the fetid East River...
...Yosemite- Henry Bourne Joy and Truman Handy Newberry, both born in November 1864. Mr. Joy, whose father formed the "Joy System" of railroads, part of which became the nucleus of the present Chicago, Burlington & Quincy served as Packard's president (1905-16). Mr. Newberry made a pleasant little splash as T.R.'s Secretary of the Navy (1908-09) and a large unpleasant splash a decade later when he defeated Henry Ford for the U. S. Senate, was accused of buying his seat with excessive campaign expenditures, resigned after he had been exonerated. When Mr. Macauley arrived as Packard...
...plane flew o'er Alaska Above the ice and snow; The engine started missing The fog was hanging low. It lit upon the water With a mighty splash And when it tried to rise again There was an awful crash...
Such news started rolling across the U. S. a wave of fear, of indignation, of determination to avoid war at all costs. With a mighty splash the wave broke over a jittery Congress, sweeping to passage the first neutrality law in U. S. history designed, not to observe international amenities, but to keep the nation...
...Crow boys played at being warriors and hunters, shot at targets, went on mock hunts of pet buffalo calves. One of their games was to throw stones into the water, crying "icbirikyū' bābirikyū'p" so that the last syllable coincided exactly with the splash. Little Crow girls played house, enjoyed the women's game of shinny. Dice was also considered a woman's game. Gray- bull spoke of squaws who were always shooting dice with the impatient air of a white husband complaining about his wife's bridge...