Word: sewn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were ready. In the grey morning they marched to school, gathered for final instructions. Not knowing where he was going (each school was to take the first free train out), each child had a postcard, to be sent home when he arrived at his billet. On his clothes was sewn his name and address. A Mr. Brown's four children, aged 4 to 11, marched with their names printed in big letters on their backs. From London and 28 other cities, all through last weekend and this week, the greatest mass evacuation in Britain's history went on. Some children...
...death last week, had made no less than five public recantations of opposition to Stalin in & out.of court during the past 15 years. A novelty in court was that the Jewish prisoner Rozengolts was discovered last week to have been unconsciously going around with a piece of consecrated bread sewn into his clothes by his wife together with a Christian prayer. The court found that Rozengolts alone of the 21 had wished to kill Stalin with his own hand, had for this purpose sought as many interviews with the Dictator as possible. After so confessing, Communist Rozengolts wound up: "Millions...
Died. James A. Ten Eyck, 86, since 1903 rowing coach at Syracuse University; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami, Fla. A professional oarsman whose first sliding seat was greased leather sewn on his trunks, Ten Eyck once rowed his wife around Manhattan, at 65 rowed from Syracuse to Albany to prove his fitness, at 80 rowed in shells with men young enough to be his great-grandsons...
Other objects missing from the "jimmied" showcases on a third-floor room of the museum include three gold nose rings, two gold ear spools, two gold head crests, two gold strips to be sewn on clothing, two gold bird's heads, two miniature gold arm bands, two frog-shaped ornaments, two gold disks, and two other nondescript gold ornaments...
Since last spring when a Berkeley, Calif, surgeon sawed two holes in her skull "to let out the pain," as she understood the purpose of the operation, Dema Dunlap, 23, a buxom, introspective epileptic, had an irresistible compulsion to finger her scalp where it lay sewn over the trephine holes. The soft spots, yielding under pressure of her finger tips, felt like the germinal depressions of a coconut...