Word: thirsting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there a little lip-service to the Almighty and upon occasion the President worships in a historic Washington church. Doubtless in his private life he recognizes an Unseen Power. But we cannot forget that Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated his term, not by any provision to quench the spiritual thirst of the American people with the water that springs up into eternal life, but with the unloosing of the liquor evil...
...Wittmer wanted posted and some of her baby's clothes as size samples for the purchase of more on the mainland. Nuggerud's fishing boat, the Dinamita, was wrecked and he and Lorenz managed to make the shores of waterless Marchena Island where they died of thirst...
...McGee), granddaughter of the young institution's chief patroness. As poisonous a moppet as ever twisted a playmate's arm, Mary is a prodigal liar, an incorrigible marplot, the school's petted problem child. Punishment for her misdeeds arouses in her a persecution complex and a thirst to revenge herself on the Misses Wright & Dobie. Armed with information clandestinely gathered from Mlle de Maupin, Mary convinces her righteous grandmother that Miss Dobie is in love with Miss Wright, that she has witnessed grave misbehavior. The grandmother ruins the school by spreading the tale. The accused young women...
...work is to be found in the removal of the antiquated bottle water-cooler which used to stand in a corner just outside the President's office and in the installation in its stead of one of the latest type electrically refrigerated water-coolers. To quench their thirst now, President Conant and his office force drink city instead of spring water...
...great part of that custom they might have obtained on merit, were all other considerations equal. Is it then right that they should be thus penalized for adhering to the letter of the law, while their less fastidious rivals reap their ill-gotten gains? Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are not speedily filled in Harvard Square...