Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lesson from their brothers-in-arms, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For years Doukhobors, men and women, insisted on parading naked through Saskatchewan villages. Last year Doukhobor women enraged the Mounties by sitting naked on their fences and jeering. Police officers corrected this by issuing to their men spray guns filled with itching powder...
...education services together. ¶ To the funeral of Richard Oulahan, New York Times correspondent and dean of Washington correspondents (see p. 61) went President & Mrs. Hoover. On the casket of the deceased, who had been kinder to the President than any other Washington correspondent save Mark Sullivan, lay a spray of rosebuds and a palm from the White House greenhouses...
Traveler In Richmond, Va., one Henry Perkins, jobless hitchhiker, begged a night's lodging at a police station. Given a cell, he spread newspapers on the floor, opened an expensive suitcase, dressed himself in silk pajamas. Then he took from his suitcase a small spray gun, sprayed the cot thoroughly, went...
...kind of phrases that can be skipped: in The Waves hides many a half-submerged treasure which a skimming reader might miss. Now & then you strike pure poetry: ". . . like one of those lamps that turn on slabs of racing water at midnight in the Atlantic, when perhaps only a spray of seaweed pricks the surface, or suddenly the waves gape and up shoulders a monster...
...rain against dirty windows. But for all the dying man knew of the storm, he heard it not, for he was deaf. It was enough to know that the gods were angry, that Beethoven was dying. He raised himself on his elbow and, in the glare of a spray of lightning, shook his first to the skies and became immortal...