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Word: squirts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress every morning in or out of session. Mr. Coolidge is an original. He is the first man ever put four wheel brakes on a Jew's harp. He has almost invented a silent loud speaker. And he is a perfect master of the enematic style-a squirt of warm water in the place of breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...Squirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...squirt-bench is not in Madrid, but in the royal gardens of the Alcazar, a Moorish palace in Seville where the court seldom resides except during Seville's famed "Easter Week," an occasion of surpassing splendor. Indeed the squirt-bench had not been used until last week since Edward of Wales visited Seville (TIME, May 30, 1927). The long intervals between the times King Alfonso plays his favorite prac- tical joke keep other Royalties comparatively ignorant that the squirt-bench exists. Ignorant last week was Prince Aymon Robert Marguerite Marie Joseph Turin, Duke of Spoleto, 30, reputed suitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Royal Joke | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

King Alfonso led the Prince to an imposing marble bench, and indicated that he should sit down. His weight caused the six concealed jets to squirt. While King Alfonso, the Infanta Beatriz and the Prince's mother, the Duchess of Aosta laughed and laughed, the Italian Prince got up from the squirt-bench and wrung out his clothes as best he could without removing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Royal Joke | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Alfonso's squirt-water insult to the future ruler of the nation which rules the waves. Wilhelm II, when Kaiser and All Highest War Lord, used to ask visiting royal males below the rank of Emperor to lean out a certain window, the better to watch troops parading below. When they did so the All Highest would give their posteriors a resounding, open-palm slap, would laugh and laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Royal Joke | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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