Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...stairs was missing and he broke his legs. U. S. doctors said he could never fold again, but Vienna specialists proved them wrong. In London, Ambassador Dawes thought it would be fun to have Errol function anonymously as a waiter at an embassy dinner. Errol crashed silver and glass about, poured mineral water on a lady's arm, dropped forks under the table and crawled after them with a flashlight, asking guests to move over, please. At last Ambassador Dawes arose, explained, introducing Errol, but some guests, unused to U. S. and New South Wales humor, failed to laugh...
...increased. At the end of three months, Doc Dobbin could stand ten times as much diphtheria poison as he had first received. He had formed substances in his blood to fight the germs. Laboratory men withdrew blood from Doc Dobbin's neck. They stored it in sterile glass cylinders, allowed the valuable antibody serum to separate from the rest of the blood. After three days the serum was siphoned of, stored in a refrigerator ready for use. Antitoxin horses are bled once a month, are permitted to rest, feed well between times. No matter how old they become, they...
...Supreme Court justices (including two workmen) had brought in their verdict upon the eight engineers accused of plotting with prominent foreigners (see p. 20) and specifically with the French General Staff to overthrow the Soviet State (TIME, Nov. 24; Dec. 8). With a glass of hot tea at his elbow, Presiding Justice Vyshinsky faced the microphone, told all Russia for an hour how extremely guilty the Court had found the prisoners, then paused to deliver sentence: "Xenophon. Sitnin! Ten years imprisonment!" Two other less important prisoners received the same sentence. But the five ringleaders, headed by Professor Leonid Ramzin, were...
...Women's City Club how, when they were in Mexico, her husband had censored her recently published children's book. The Painted Pig. Because its characters were little Mexicans, cautious Ambassador Morrow changed the sentence "but generals are brittle and easily broken" to read "but glass generals are brittle. . . ." When he had perused the book he sent it for consideration to the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...Albany, N. Y., James Mason assaulted James Gilmore, pilfered from him 10. James Mason was sent to prison to serve from seven and one-half to 15 years. In Los Angeles, Emory Ells, restaurant handyman, wanted to have his wife, Mrs. Merle Ells, killed. He gave Benjamin Franklin Brown, glass-molder, 22 dimes; Glass-molder Brown murdered her as she slept with her infant...