Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burned blackly into medical annals is the fire in Surgeon George Washington Crile's .Cleveland Clinic (TIME, May 27, 1929). The fire occurred in a basement room wherein were stored x-ray films. The burning films emitted fumes (carbon monoxide and nitrogen tetroxide) which killed scores of Dr. Crile's patients, doctors and employes on the spot. Other scores died during the following weeks. Deaths eventually totalled...
...Dornsife, 73, had found a companion for her tomcat. A few nights later the cat disappeared. Widow Dornsife's tomcat found a new companion. That one, too, disappeared. Widow Dornsife got a third, fourth, fifth companion for her tomcat. All disappeared. Then one night up from the widow's basement came the tomcat's first companion. With her were five kittens. The neighbors complained...
Murder in the Basement ? Anthony Berkeley?Crime Club...
...session Commander Waters led thousands of his B. E. F. to the Capitol to protest adjournment. Barred from the plaza by a thin line of police, the veterans were at first good-natured and docile. When a truck dumped a load of bricks ordered for fireproofing a sub-basement of the Capitol, they roared with laughter...
...know what he would say,' he shouted, 'exactly what he did when some Prohibitionists called on him and asked him what to do about a saloon which was operating in the vicinity of the Capitol. He told them to move it into the basement of that building.' " When she was 16, Pauline Morton moved with her father, onetime vice president of Santa Fe R. R., whose brother is famed for his salt ("It Pours"), to Washington when he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Roosevelt. She had a Washington debut and when she married...