Word: venting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just one more thought before I replace this quill to its rightful position on my insignia. Many thanks to the bride-to-be of Eusign Bailey for keeping him so occupied as to afford tue this very pleasant opportunity of giving literary instead of the usual verbal vent to my impressions. And also-should anyone take particular notice of smoke billowing from the Navy Office, please be assured that the Yeomen therein are not on fire. It is only due to the newly arrived son of Lt. (jg) Kauder who must have been sent with the compliments of the White...
Everywhere grey, genial Custodian Cook, veteran of seven inaugurations and countless special appearances, posted guards against bomb, crackpot or assassin. Two were even assigned to the great three-foot air ducts, lest somebody crawl in and loose poison gas to be swept into the House chamber through the vent over the Speaker's chair...
...other camp. Huckleberry Mickey Fenn, the Cambridge Comet, proclaims his charges in superb shape for the tussle. Studded with power is the CRIMSON eleven, from J. Robert Mosking of Leverett House (I think) on one end to Finely Corliss Lament Van Vent far out on the other...
After a couple of months of trying to please audiences, the Cambridge Summer Theatre has apparently at last given vent to a long-suppressed ambition, and is now presenting a show in which the actors have a gay time for themselves, without paying too much attention to anyone else. "Ten Nights in a Barroom" has Mary Barthelmess droning "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now"; it has Robert Perry hopping around like an 1890 model of Danny Kaye; and it has a weird conglomeration of characters and specialty acts. These vary widely in appeal, but they have one thing...
...catalytic-cracking expert Eugene Houdry. The rubbermen were still human enough to be glad to find an excuse in Mr. Houdry's steel figures, which appeared to be as high or higher than those for most of the program already under way. Mr. Houdry was mad enough to vent his spleen all over the place. But the important point is that, even six weeks ago a new process from a less eminent scientist than Eugene Houdry would have stopped the whole synthetic program in its tracks until it was investigated. Now the die is cast...