Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Special Audience. Satchmo was enthusiastic about the spaghetti and about some Italian mineral water he had found. "I was skoaling with everybody up there in Scandanavia," he explained, "and that schnapps tore my stomach up." He also expressed interest in Roman history: "They tell me that Nero had a chick with him when this joint burnt down." But by all odds the high spot came after Satchmo (who has Baptist leanings and wears a Star of David medallion around his neck) said that he had always wanted to meet the Pope. It was arranged; Satchmo and his wife Lucille were...
...city's nearest neighbors, a handful of primitive tribesmen, know almost nothing about it and avoid it in superstitious fear. They call it Peshawarun, and believe it was abandoned centuries ago when invaders cut the irrigation ditches bringing water from the mountains. The inhabitants fled 700 miles northeast, locals claim, to found the city of Peshawar...
...Munroe-Langstroth steamshovels started dredging out the gook last Wednesday, when the contract began. A third will swing into action in two weeks, when it gets the necessary engine parts. After they have dug pits 11 feet down from water level and stretching out a few yards from either bank, they will fill the holes with gravel mounds 15 inches higher than present water level, as bases for the abutments...
...insists on censoring Princeton's version of the Confy Guide, and once boycotted all merchants that sold it--although perhaps with good reason: the booklet had written that a certain professor "jumps around on the lecture platform like a man with four cents in front of a five-cent water closet...
...little girl who lived on a small farm outside of Laramie, Wyoming owned a fuzzy dachshund named Pete. The farm was set on the very edge of the dry desert; the little girl's front lawn was crisis-crossed by a network of shallow irrigation ditches, which brought muddy water down from the hills after the heavy rains...