Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stenographer and a teacher, who thought Gandhi at 77 not too old to learn Bengali. Often at Shrirampore Gandhi sang Rabindranath Tagore's Ekla Chalo (Walk Alone). Out one day for his afternoon walk, Gandhi tried to cross a bamboo-stick bridge, slipped and was saved from a splash by his teacher. Murmured Gandhi (who rarely misses a chance at homely symbolism): "Crossing bamboo bridges requires great skill. ... I shall try to acquire it by practicing...
...these who don't read the splash headlines, Budenz is the former leading Communist journalist converted to Catholicism and a Fordham professorship by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen in October of 1945. Hearst's editorial pages with their belligerent captial letters have recently featured his "inside story," and he is presently touring U. S. religious gatherings to reveal "What Every American should Know About Communism." Last night St. Patrick's Youth Center sponsored his appearance at the Cambridge High and Latin School Auditorium...
Intramural mermen will get their first splash of regular competition after Christmas, although aquatically-minded individuals can work out in the pool on Wednesday nights, he said...
Between 1879 and 1883 a young unknown named George Bernard Shaw, living hand-to-mouth in London, dashed off five novels, one after the other. They piled up a grand total of 60 rejection slips before publication, and never made much of a splash when they were finally published...
...home away from home." After golf or tennis, they stop in at the club-the Polo (men only) or the Pickwick. The Polo provides two tables for volunteer snooker, a tattered copy of Punch, and a few low easy chairs in which members can order a whiskey-&-splash, and rehearse the good old days of rumrunning. The younger set prefer the Pickwick, for its jukebox...