Word: splattered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zero. When President Roosevelt finally got his $4,880,000,000 from Congress last April 8, he set July 1, amid a great splatter of headlines, as the date when all the nation's employables would have been shifted from local dole to Federal work. When that deadline came & went last week the new Works program stood as follows...
...assistance of the American Institute for Persian Art & Archaeology. Between them they presented potent evidence in an exhibit of reproductions of 17th Century Persian frescoes which one Sarkis Katchadourian has spent two years laboriously copying in gouache on paper, reproductions which mimic exactly the patches of new plaster, the splatter of the original frescoer's brush. As in Paris, where the reproductions were first exhibited, critics were amused to note that painters apparently copied Marie Laurencin and Henri Matisse in the 17th Century. It seemed likely that the Institute for Persian Art & Archaeology which last winter started a Persian...
...able to throw some light on what happens to .0308 of hydrogen's atomic weight (1.0077) when four atoms of it combine to form one atom of helium (atomic weight: 4). It is that lost energy which Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks is converted into cosmic rays which splatter about the earth and seep into teacups...
...strong wind massed overhead. The President took his place in the open grandstand. Angry lightning glittered across the sky. The singing of "America" was accompanied by the boom of thunder. The wind rose to a shriek. "Our Father Who art in Heaven," began Bishop Thomson as the first splatter of rain fell into the crowd. Before he finished the prayer the heavens had flooded the earth. The crowd broke and ran. President Hoover got soaked. Mrs. Hoover was doused as tarpaulins ballooned in the wind and admitted the downpour. The ceremony was abruptly called off. The President and his bedraggled...
...real friend in the newspaper business. He's a Democrat and his name is William Randolph Hearst."* Up rose a heckler to shout: "And he's got his halter around your neck, you lying skunk, Bill Thomp son." Eggs began to splatter over the stage...