Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...River of Doubt" had become a great popular joke in the U. S. First a noisy controversy arose as to whether such a river actually existed. The newspapers jumped into the fray. Cartoons appeared featuring a burly figure with buck teeth and thick-lensed glasses, and a nebulous torrent. Editorials were written on both sides of the quarrel. The "River of Doubt" became a household phrase and the country had a grand time...
...Test Pilot Boris Sergievsky opened the throttles for the initial flight, the ship surged forward under the drive of its two 750-h.p. Hornet engines. Suddenly those on shore burst into a torrent of excited Russian. One of the motors had quit, owing to a defective fuel pump. Capt. Sergievsky, unaware of the engine failure, kept The throttles open. The 543 got up "on the step," lumbered into the air on one motor after 15 sec. At 200 ft. Mechanic Albert Morvay got the ailing engine working again by "wabbling" fuel with a hand pump. Capt. Sergievsky brought the ship...
...TIME, Nov. 19). Knowing what their country was up against, shrewd French investors sent a thin trickle of capital abroad. Then week after week as the condition of French business, the size of the probable deficit, became more & more apparent, the gold flow grew. Last week it was a torrent...
Walter Pach set out to be a painter. He presently found that he and everyone else had more fun when he criticized other people's paintings (Ananias or the False Artist, The Masters of Modern Art, An Hour of Art). A little, well-liked man muffling a torrent of talk in a brown torrent of mustache, he has never flinched, after his fiercest attacks on other men's works of art, from putting his own on view. Last week he did it again, at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries, his first exhibition since...
...mushroomed up from the dumbwaiter shaft of his sleeping house in Boston's Back Bay where lay his crippled 70-year-old mother, four women servants and his four children, and suddenly the core of the house was a torrent of fire. Daughter Alice and her grandmother were roasted in their beds. Two maids were scorched off fourth floor window sills to which they clung, fell to their death. Mary, 13, with the fire on her back, jumped out a second story window and mortally hurt herself. Ellen Elaine, 6, jumped and survived with bad burns. Plucky little John...