Word: aprons
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...years, when two frozen-faced young men came softly in behind her and demanded her keys. They wanted to get in Room No. 1903, across the hall, they whispered. When Mrs. O'Brien asked why, one of the soft-snarling men stuck a revolver against her apron. Mrs. O'Brien put her hand in her apron pocket where she kept her key ring -and a crucifix. She clutched the crucifix and uttered a silent, urgent prayer. Then she swung her fist to the gunman...
...Many conditions may cause symptoms of pseudocyesis. Sometimes, in older women, an apron of fat develops over the abdomen at menopause. Other women may have large tumors, or their abdomens may be distended with air. Most common cause is hysteria: an intense psychological desire for a child creates a muscular spasm which pushes the abdomen out. Treatment varies : purges may be helpful, or the muscles may be worked into place while the patient is under an anesthetic. Since most of the cases are hysterical, Dr. Rutherford thinks pseudocyesis is psychiatry's baby...
...Most unions have had to win better wages and shorter hours by the mailed fist rather than the oily word. Yet occasionally a union organizes effectively enough, and the employer is intelligent enough, to avoid the exercise of collective strength. When that happens, union members ought to shake their apron-strings in glee. It's happening all right, but some of the workers are responding rather perversely...
Because a sister of the parish hates to be caught unprepared by her preacher, on his pastoral rounds he would linger out front tying his horse (later testing his tires) until she had time to whip off her apron and straighten up the parlor. Because the Methodist Discipline forbade smoking, he passed out chocolate cigars when his son was born. But he knew how to call his shots. When a parishioner begged him to tell her daughter not to accept a job in Manhattan because something might happen to her there, Parson Spence looked her in the eye, said...
...attacked as smacking of totalitarianism. So it is significant that Dean Hudnut is making no promises this time that when the courses are given two years from now they will still be standing on their own feet, in a School of their own, and not tied to the apron strings of the School of Architecture...