Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late yesterday it crawled into a hole on the top of a tenement house inhabited by the Medical School maids, whence it worked its way in between the wall and the plaster. Once it was cornered Dr. Walter shoved a pillow dripping with ether into the hole and at last the mandril gave up the struggle and was retrieved with a boathook amid the applause of all the budding obstetricians...
...aviator and husband of famed British Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison. Sobered, fined $10, Captain Mollison explained in court next morning: "When I consumed three or four cocktails, more or less, it rather topped me. Not at all blotto, you understand, but just jingled, so to speak. I felt top hole but when a couple of your bobbies drove up alongside and suggested that I get in their bus I gladly accepted their invitation. I told them I was on my way to a night club, the Trocadero, and thought they were going to take me there but somehow they missed...
...bring out authoritatively all the facts of silicosis hazards." When the inquest was petering out for lack of wind last week young Senator Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia appeared before the House Committee with a commonsense statement: "This was and is American industry's 'Black Hole of Calcutta.' I have had first-hand knowledge of it for several years-despite a combine of big-business silence. Unhappily, nothing can be done now. The disease is regarded as incurable. But surely the fullest light should be thrown on this tragedy so that we may have some assurance...
...last September at Marcus & Co., Manhattan jewelers. To startled passersby, it seemed that rich jewels and rare diamonds were theirs for the taking. Last week the illusion became something of a reality. Some miscreant, gazing at a jewelry-display behind the invisible pane, returned with hammer & chisel, chopped a hole in invisibility, walked off with three diamond rings worth $36,000. Police soon caught the culprit, recovered two of the three rings. Other invisible glass windows have been installed at the Chrysler Building showroom, Lord & Taylor's, Brooks Bros, and Woodward & Lothrop (Washington). Installations are being made at Mandel...
DESOLATE MARCHES-L. M. Nesbitt- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Account of an
engineering trip through northern Venezuela, by the author of
Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME, March 25), who was killed last July in
an airplane crash in Switzerland. ADVENTURES IN REPUTATION - Wilbur
Cortez Abbott-Harvard University Press ($2.50). Brief but penetrating
sketches of Macaulay, Lord Chesterfield, Queen Victoria, Cromwell et
al. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, 1914-1917- Charles Seymour-F