Word: sewn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When 20 gallons of tap water had done its work, Flanagan's heart picked up with a firm beat, quickly cleared his head. Having had no anesthesia, he promptly tried to climb off the table, had to be restrained until his chest could be sewn up. A World War II top kick, Flanagan was soon sitting up, eating three squares a day, expected to go home next week...
Wine Is the Cup. If virtue was always rewarded, the conventional virtues are not always practiced. Strong wine rather than tea is the cup that cheers, and one hero downs 30 pints in one night. In The Pearl-Sewn Shirt, a lovely young wife turns to a wine-guzzling old woman for companionship in her husband's absence. The old woman returns her friendship by getting her drunk and pushing her into adultery with a wealthy young merchant. This is one tale that readers of lending-library triangle stories will have no trouble appreciating. The enraged husband divorces...
Toward the tag end of winter, when the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate has been sewn into the hair shirt of academic strictures for dismal months, he begins to itch. As Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford or Cambridge, circa 1360, according to tradition) wrote about the approach of spring, "thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages." Last week at both universities, students were dreamily reviewing intricate plans for a modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela...
...Detroit store sold the watch for $17.00. A blanket manufacturer offered retailers $24.95-list blankets that a retailer sold at $14.95; comparative shopping showed that they were not worth $10.00. One major mattress maker now gives his retailers a choice of three different list prices to be sewn to the ticking. Which preticket the merchant chooses depends on 1) what sales price he plans to ask, 2) how big a reduction he thinks his customers will swallow...
...elements of the sewing industry have combined to launch a huge sew-more campaign. Manhattan's R. H. Macy, boasting probably the biggest piece-goods department in the world, runs home-sewn fashion shows every day for about 14 weeks a year. Singer Manufacturing Co. spends $3,000,000 a year on national advertising, gives free machine lessons at 1,700 Singer Centers to 363,000 women a year, sponsors annual sewing contests with contestants winning $210,000 in prizes. One return prize for the industry is more and more younger sewers: the average home sewer...