Word: splashingly
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...continuous splash of water played over woodwork invincibly varnished with Valspar. The hiss of Fyre-Freez extinguishing apparatus attracted knots of the curious. Small motion picture advertising machines explained to all who stood and watched the swift capacities of the various craft in water. A Chrysler marine engine artfully sliced in various vitals, backed with mirrors, turned slowly to show all who cared to gaze the working mysteries of its interior...
Since the death of Walter Camp a traditional splash of football comment for the autumn flies no more. Walter Camp, Yale player and coach, often called "Father of American Football," picked each year an All-American eleven. These were presumed to be the best eleven players in the land and the honor of belonging to the group was limitless. The selections were printed in nearly every important journal in the land; the advertisng value of selecting the official All-American was vast. So vast was it that various publications have since attempted to usurp it. Grantland Rice, widely syndicated sports...
...ceremony was simple, so simple in fact that the monarch and his entourage entered the building by a side door. There were no red carpet, no flowers, no decorations on the Palace, no brilliant uniforms; King, Dictator, Delegates were all dressed in sombre morning attire. The only splash of color was supplied by the Princes of the Church in their Cardinal red. This drab setting was to emphasize the fact that the Assembly is a working body and not a fountain of useless rhetoric...
...Saturday. This sixth cay was a day of untrammeled freedoom, and the young wanderer doffed his assumed naivete and reveled. From cops, and robbers over the back fences in the morning to surreptitions ice cream cones at the corner (on uncle's nickels) in the afternoon, and the glorious splash in the tub at night, Saturday was a grand day of Back To Nature...
...exhibits, and himself exhibiting a healthy interest in the things of the mind. But on Saturday, especially in the fall, all this generally goes off with the Friday night undressing, and Saturday's clean shirt brings with it a new character. Ice cream cones have vanished, and tub splashing is gone with all dead things, but the splashing spirit is still ready to splash...