Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cuckolding her husband returns too late one night, to find him awake, angry, suspicious, herself locked out. Pretending despair, she says she will drown herself in the well if he does not open the door; throws a big stone down the well and hides. The husband, hearing the splash, comes out to investigate; the wife slips in, bars the door. Now it is her turn to shout abuse and call on Allah and the neighbors...
...Poughkeepsie bridge, Rhymer was leading. Behind Woodworth came a splash, then silence; the third boat had tipped over, must have hit a wave. At West Point, Rhymer ducked in for gas. All right, thought Woodworth, pull in with him. There's the gas pumped out into the feeder, ready on the dock...
...better formula is known for exploiting an autobiography than to provoke a squabble between the autobiographer and some other celebrity. Even the well-told story of so florid a subject as Anthony Herman Gerard ("Uncle Tony'') Fokker* would have created no great splash when it appeared last week had not the book contained some acid comments by Fokker about Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, and had not an astute press-agent pre-advised newsmen of those comments. The book made headlines last week for the passages in a scant ten pages...
With a cavernous, crashing rumble and roar which made thousands of people stir in their sleep, and with a titanic splash and spuming which only a few noctambulating tourists beheld, the Niagara River did early one morning last week something that it has not done since 1850-chewed off another giant chunk of the ledge which makes Niagara Falls. The new notch in the falls' brink is about 150 ft. wide, 250 ft. deep. Geologists say that the 40,000-year-old falls will eventually be slanted back into a long series of rapids beginning near Tonawanda...
...where the boy had been held. Next day Reporter Brundidge was following a hot tip that led to a furnished room hideaway in Kansas City. Two days later he had Charles Abernathy's confession-with a hand-written note from Abernathy to the reporter for a front-page splash. Then he led St. Louis officers to their quarry...