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...Whippings: Girls in the adolescent period have been laid on a bed, or made to lie across a large laundry basket in the attic of the girls' building, and had physical punishment administered on their naked flesh by application of lashes from a piece of rubber piping or tubing . . . from 100 to 250 strokes. In some cases so many strokes were given that one attendant had to relieve another in applying the strokes. "The Water Cure-so called: This was administered by placing the girl in a shower bath compartment, stripped naked except for bloomers. The cold shower overhead...
...home diagnosed his condition as exhaustion caused by self-starvation. The Kleins fed their wandering friend (he used to mail the Klein children sticks of gum with a dime slipped under each wrapper), tried to put him to bed. He insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's birthplace. He refused a Pullman ticket, made the hot trip in a day coach. At Staunton he collapsed, died of pneumonia which his starved body could not resist. His death made much newspaper copy...
...journeyman painter who rode from door to door with canvases on which the body was already painted so that only the head needed to be added. There must have been a picture of Ethan. It is probably still in existence, hidden away in some obscure attic or barn...
...Sublet. When Jane Blair decided that she would not go abroad with her parents, preferring to remain near her current boyfriend, she hid in the attic of her Larchmont (N. Y.) home, unaware that the family had rented the house to two bachelors. Fortunately, one of the bachelors had a niece who was due to arrive from the West, so Jane hid the niece in the uncle's Manhattan apartment, pretended she was the niece. Jane had come to love the uncle. This unimportant sociological predicament is ultimately ironed out in the last act. Actress Dorothea Chard, winsome, small, plays...
Investigating the houses in which the Oesterreichs had lived in Milwaukee and Los Angeles, police found a secret room in each, shrewdly fitted under the eaves in the attic...