Word: squirts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trees have been cut down. Fruit has been destroyed. In infested areas, no new crops can be planted. No fruits can be exported from any part of Florida without the most rigid inspection. Even motorists, driving through the infested districts, are stopped at county borders while busy officials squirt insecticide over cars, coats, baggage. Even personal luggage is opened and the contents liberally squirted. To a protesting motorist, one official remarked: "Well, lady, we have $4,000,000 to spend and we got to do something with...
...Hallisey hated Jack Casey. They had been glaring at each other for days. There was going to be a fight. And when, in Prof. Carl C. Wheaton's junior law class, Hallisey got up to open a window, Casey told him not to. With eyes no bigger than squirt-holes in the snow, Hallisey edged up to Casey, dragging one foot behind the other. "Lead at me," he said, "Lead-you funny fellow." He was uttering words never before heard in the law class of Prof. Carl C. Wheaton. Casey led. His fist flicked Hallisey's jaw, knocking...
...Irishmen, Italians, Sicilians, Slavs and many another tribe. The Western Electric Co. employs thousands of them; other industries are near and plentiful. But it is to the gangs of the Bad Lands that Cicero owes its headline glamor. Up and down its streets, fiery Sicilians and raucous Irishmen playfully squirt machine guns at each other. On other days they go zooming into Chicago with truckloads of beer. And then, when the day's labors are done, they have their 60 "soft drink parlors," their brothels, and their roulette wheels. The Bad Lands have their king, "Scarface Al" Caponi, alias...
...Brown expended about $4,000 a month on the upkeep of the Valfreya. The 18 men who comprised his crew earned their high pay and seldom stayed with him long. He possessed a large squirt gun which he delighted to fill with bilge water in the dead of night. Thus armed he stole upon sleeping members of his crew, inserted the tip of the gun in an ear, pressed the plunger. Two private secretaries left him after suffering this treatment. Mr. Brown crept upon a third secretary at night, clipped off his mustache without waking him, squirted...
Albert Carroll leads the parodists a hurricane pace in the several roles of "Joseph Schildkraut as Benvenuto Cellini," Sergeant Squirt, Lynn Fontanne (in Mr. and Mrs. Guardsman) Pavlowa (L'Irlandesa Rosa dell' Abie) and Florence Mills (in the Harlem Cabaret...