Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italy. Mountainous Atlantic seas crashing against the Spanish coast and the Bay of Biscay sent subterranean jolts across Europe, down the backbone of Italy to waggle seismograph needles in the Catholic Observatory in Florence. In Sicily, Mount Etna sputtered in mild eruption...
Conference. Farm Relief thereupon disappeared into the subterranean chambers of the Capitol where five Senators and five Representatives began to wrestle with their disagreements. Of the Senate conferees, three had opposed the Debenture Plan, two had favored it. All five of the House conferees opposed it. Its extirpation seemed certain...
...13th Century, the Petit Châtelet stood on the left bank of the Seine. Its grey twin towers made at once a gate to the city, a fortress, and a prison for thieves and political offenders. Old as was the Petit Châtelet, its winding subterranean crypts and dungeons were even older, and included a portion of a long forgotten secret tunnel under the Seine built when 9th Century Paris was besieged by fierce red-haired Norman pirates. The Petit Châtelet was pulled down in a popular uprising just before the Revolution, its more obvious cellars...
...wish to sleep later on any given morning than 8 o'clock, the family rising hour; 4) Even the four privileged reporters are not permitted to telephone from the palace, nor may they leave by the main door. However great the news emergency, they must duck out through a subterranean passageway, then sprint for private houses in the neighborhood, where they have arranged to use the telephone, day or night...
Last week when a big subterranean main began to hiss softly at Duisburg, in the Ruhr, 40 people were gassed by the leak and five (including babes) met Death...