Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form in a woman's eyes. As he was drinking a glass of water at breakfast, the rains came. They not only came, they poured; first the grounds became wet, then drenched, then saturated. Leaves on the trees dripped sheepishly. People in the street turned up their coat collars, sprung umbrellas open, and began...
...superfluous when critics from all sections of the country have applauded both offerings. Suffice it to say that "Lost Horizon" is the enthralling story of a man's journey to happiness, and "The Good Earth" tells the struggle of a Chinese farmer to conquer the earth from which he sprung...
...played the violin for the first ten years of his career before becoming a pianist). Shaw on Patti: There has not yet been witnessed a dramatic situation so tragic that Madame Patti would not get up in the middle of it to bow and smile if somebody accidentally sprung his opera hat. She is simply a marvelous Christy Minstrel, and when you have heard her sing Within a Mile in the Albert Hall, so perfectly that not a syllable or whisper of it is lost, you have heard the best...
...union of the English speaking people throughout the world, and to encourage in the students from the United States of North American scholarships to be established for the reason above given at the University of Oxford under this my will, an attachment to the country from which they have sprung, but without, I hope, withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth...
...Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...