Word: thirsting
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...wireless called for help. Forced down somewhere in the vast Sahara, the flyers. Jean Reginensi, Robert Lenier, Joseph Touge, were unhurt but thirsty. Rescue planes began hunting, but the stranded flyers could not state their location. For three days the crew continued to flash piteous accounts of their increasing thirst. In return they received messages of love from their families, advice to burn their oil and even their plane as a signal to searchers. On the third day the radio failed, its last message expressing thanks for the efficient communications but adding: "We had rather have a barrel of beer...
...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...