Word: thirsted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast hinterland. Men gathered their families under mansard roofs; little girls in gingham and pigtails kicked their high shoes against the scrollwork of the porch. When the broad highway was muddy wagon track, men made no stir to journey afield. The village bar answered a man's thirst; and in the village barber-shop every voice had its part...
...impudent Mayor has conceived." This feeling was shared in San Francisco by the Chronicle which resented "a hippodrome performance," declared: "Californians, of course, do not care how much publicity Mr. Walker seeks or gets in ordinary ways. But it is another matter when he seeks to satisfy his thirst for public notice by mixing up his public office with private meddling...
...which thudded through The Emperor Jones (1920) sounded a new pulse on the U. S. stage. With Beyond the Horizon (1919), Anna Christie (1921) and Strange Interlude (1929) he has thrice won the Pulitzer Prize. His published works number 28. If you would like a copy of Thirst & Other One-Act Plays, his first printed volume, it will cost...
...shake off the crooked company he kept before. He sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold, a strange, unhappy criminal type, who sips lemonade but gulps women. A month with one is always enough to slake Reinhold's thirst; then he has a terrible time getting rid of her. Biberkopf helps him by taking over his castoffs; for a time they are great cronies. One night Reinhold persuades Biberkopf to come out on a job. The simple fellow does not realize what is afoot; be fore he knows...
...from ten to 18 eggs. When these hatch, she leads the ducklings immediately down to the water. In ordinary times, duckling mortality is high. Turtles, hawks and even large fish consume many. In drought times mother & brood may find no water at all and so perish of thirst, or else they have to cross great stretches of mud, open to their natural enemies...