Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black ties year round, blue suits winters, white linen summers. Another personal idiosyncrasy: he hates suspenders, ridicules staffmen who wear them, calls them "sissy." Accustomed to bossing his own business, he champions local causes; alienated the advertising of a Nashville store by exposing its sale of shoddy blankets to flood sufferers; drove loan sharks out of Nashville by publicity last year. While not endorsing Landon, the Banner in last year's election was quite evidently not New Deal...
...flood of international amity which has been sweeping down upon our shores since the Britons decided whom among the fecund Windsors they wanted as their sovereign, comes an intriguing bit of flotsam designed specially for Harvard. Not Albion, however, but Germany is seen as the brother nation extending a small sprig of laurel in an attempt to draw fair Harvard out of her accustomed shell. Harvard has again been honored by being asked to send a delegate to the annual celebration of the university of Goettingen. Harvard has again, been honored by being asked to send a delegate...
Died. Brigadier General Thomas Herbert Jackson, 63, U. S. Army engineer; in China, where he had paused on a world cruise with his wife. He designed and supervised the building of the Sacramento River $50,000,000 flood-control system, as head of the Mississippi River Commission (1928-32) directed the beginning and a major portion of the Federal Government's $1,000,000,000 flood-control construction in the Lower Mississippi Valley...
...DICTIONARY OF SLANG AND UNCONVENTIONAL ENGLISH - Eric Partridge - Macmillan ($12.50). Scholarly and gallant 999-page attempt to list the flood of "colloquialisms and catchphrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized" (40,000 entries in all) by an English lexicographer...
...crowding was more than 15% beyond the rating. Four mental hospitals contained more than 50% excess patients. General hospitals complain of their empty beds, which last year totaled 35.7% of capacity. Some of these vacancies constitute a kind of insurance against over-crowding during epidemics, fires, flood, earthquakes. But many, argued one contributor to last week's A. M. A. Journal, are due to a zest to build, although every bed in a U. S. hospital represents a cost of from $5,000 to $7,500 in space and equipment. Currently about 600 new hospitals are being built...