Word: spoutings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sailor has never seen a waterspout, but when they appear at all they are usually in groups. As many as 30 have been sighted from a single ship in one day. Twenty or thirty feet is the average diameter, although a few are as thick as 700 ft. Spouts a mile high have been reported. Usually they move with the wind but may travel in other directions at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. Average life of a spout...
...vicious spout swung inland from the bay off Swansea, Wales, struck a hillside, gutted a row of houses, washed 8,000 tons of earth, rock, debris and human beings to the bottom of the slope. Once a waterspout hit a White Star liner headon, doused the crow's nest, slopped tons of water on the decks, wrecked the bridge and chartroom, flooded cabins. Five years ago Bordeaux housewives reaped a harvest of small fish swept up from the River Garonne into a water twister, carried inshore and deposited wriggling in the streets...
Later on there were flurries of excitement as the Hindenburg passed the Normandie, Europa, Statendam. United Pressman Webb Miller saw three whales spout. At dinner, most of the women, but only three men, put on evening clothes to eat Black Forest trout...
...burlesque show. John A. Mapes, investment broker, contributed a delightful Bar Panel, The Fishing Party, showing Father Neptune and mermaids tugging from sea bottom on the line of a fishing boat at the top of the composition. Heightening the picture's excitement were an approaching water spout, a shark, several drunken fishermen, an octopus assaulting a mermaid and Mapes's realistic way of making his mermaids' breasts swim pendulously in water...
...feel it spout...