Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before one daybreak a mahogany-colored rumrunner with a wide white stripe just above the water line shot out from the shadowy Canadian shore. Within 100 feet of a Detroit dock it was intercepted by U. S. Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the bow of the rumrunner opened revolver fire on the two customs men in No. 1401. Sharply the U. S. agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield...
...Adopted the Cannon platform in which Prohibition was called "the high-water mark of civilization." All resources were pledged to up-to-the-hilt enforcement...
...speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some prominent U. S. citizen nearly once a month.* Last week he and the Pilgrims had one of the most notable banquets of their career...
...From now on, the King's health will be drunk only in water at the American Embassy in London. Last week, Ambassador Dawes issued an order banning the drinking of alcoholic liquors in the Embassy holding that U. S. territory is U. S. soil...
...chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When she returned, the baby had drowned in its bath water. Ion Gerghuta's wife ran from the house to the farm pond, plunged in, drowned herself. Ion Gerghuta, when he saw that she was dead, found his revolver and killed himself...