Word: whiledealing
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In a Navy chief yeoman's cap, the chief yeoman of U. S. foreign trade and diplomacy whiled away the cruising days with constitutionals around the deck, reading detective stories, reclining on a cabin lounge to chat with the 20 newsmen aboard, observing naval mysteries such as range-finding...
¶ A marine pilot, Capt. Howard, flying over Nicaragua involuntarily came to earth near La Luz mine on the east coast. His pontoon dug into the earth, ploughed a furrow. Corporal George Cole left to guard the plane, whiled away the time by panning out $100 worth of gold from...
In the Sing Sing Death House last week sat Thomas ("Red") Moran, awaiting the electric chair. To visitors, Convict Moran made complaint, lamenting, however, not his fate but his neighbors. On the one hand he is flanked by Convict Julius Gibbs, subject to fits of epilepsy. On the other he...
Forty years ago, in Middletown, N. Y., a farmer named Lewis C. Andrews found a turtle in a field and whiled away a pleasant hour cutting his initials and the date "1886" in the turtle's mottled back. Last week a neighbor, Levi Sinsabaugh, found the turtle in a...
At Los Angeles, a grocer on the city's outskirts whiled away time before his supper listening to his radio, heard a voice at Station KPO (San Francisco) saying: "Allen Straight is asked to communicate immediately with his father at Loveland, Colo. Straight is thought to be en route...