Word: casement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where I am laid on a cold slab. My flesh is cold, the blood dried, and my eyes wide and staring. Lying there naked, I am about to request the attendant to cover me with more than a sheet, when I awake with a strong wind blowing through the casement and on my uncovered self...
Through Secretary Wallace went out a call to a carefully selected group of farm leaders to come to Washington to confer on what should be done for agriculture. The carefully selected group did not include such anti-New Dealers as Kansas' Dan Casement, who is a charter member of the Liberty League, or Iowa's Milo Reno, promoter of the "Farm Holiday." It did include Edward A. O'Neal, head of the Federal Farm Bureau Federation, a good ally of the New Deal, and representatives of the Farmers' Union (strong in the South...
...been "The Hanging Judge" to terrified British criminals who also called him "Acid Drop." Scrawny-necked, thin-lipped, slit-eyed and fearsome on his high bench in Old Bailey, Sir Horace sent to the gallows a yearly grist of sordid British murderers and that misguided Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement. The Acid Drop also corroded Clarence Hatry, greatest of British swindlers, whose gigantic frauds unsettled confidence in The City and hastened Depression (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Last week Super-Swindler Hatry sat in a cell from which he may emerge in 1944, and the shriveled 83-year-old form...
Helmeted and handsome, a London policeman incautiously pauses before a hedge, groans, contorts his face, sinks lifeless to the pavement Europe's most accomplished cracksman, dinner jacketed, cool, emerges from a casement window, catches sight of the officer still weltering bloodily on the hedge, hurries away, slightly ruffied by the event. Scotland Yard at last has a clew; if they find the cracksman who stole the $256,000 dollar diamond, they feel certain they will have the maniac swordsman who stuck the policeman from behind the hedge, who had killed four other police in almost as many nights...
...disturbing window is a black one set a feet behind the outside window. As the carpenters in charge of the repairs were forced to get at the window from the outside, a scaffolding was erected. Wedges driven into the casement to prevent the window from shaking have not proved satisfactory, and a brick wall may have to be erected...