Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near Henderson, Colo., a truck driver named Margorito Gomez ran into a pole that carried a 13,000-volt power line. Within seconds, five nearby farm houses caught fire, the local telephone exchange was knocked out, a bull was electrocuted, and all the electric water pumps in the area stopped pumping. At home, Gomez explained: "I'm subject to fainting spells...
...years, Billy Rose has sprinted breathlessly (sometimes sidestepping, and down dark alleys) from grinding poverty to easeful wealth, from chalk on the sidewalk to a Rembrandt in his parlor, from a cold-water tenement to elegant $100,000 diggings on Manhattan's Beekman Place...
Cleveland then asked him to brighten up the Great Lakes Exposition. For Cleveland, Billy dreamed up a water ballet "with Lake Erie for a stage and Canada for a backdrop." He called it the Aquacade, and in 1939 brought it east to New York's World's Fair...
Died. Col. William J. L. Lyster, 77, retired U.S. Army doctor, inventor (1916) of the "Lyster Bag," a large, rubberized, udder-like canvas container from which soldiers in both World Wars drew thoroughly purified, highly unpalatable water; in Washington...
...notably good is Robert Ryan as a competent but unsophisticated man who gets involved with very bad companions. With an urgent score by Hanns Eisler, Director Jean Renoir has concocted a climax in which two men quarrel at the top of their lungs against the deafening sound of squally water and orchestral fortissimo. To balance such experiments, which smack of artiness, Renoir has thrown in some solid domestic naturalism and an excellently staged Coast Guardsmen's dance. Best of all, he has eloquently suited the pale visual tone of the film to the pale air, sea and sand...