Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ribs roused him. He saw "two short men and two stout men" wearing flour sacks over their heads a la Ku Klux Klan. Ordered to the county jail, Sergeant Fairbanks knew what was expected of him. He had the keys which would lead through six locked but unguarded cell doors to Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...
...Dothan, Ala.. John Sowell, ex-Texas convict was arrested, imprisoned. The Sheriff removed two hacksaw blades from his person. Later guards found his cell empty, a note: "Dear Sheriff. You miscounted...
...want to show the public. In a new Hall of Man they want to show "man's embryology, development of his body, unfolding of his behavior, his genetics, and a resume of his achievements over the ages." They want a microvivarium to show how ameba and other one-cell animals live. They want to show how to farm frogs, how to make pocketbooks from snake skins...
...colonies, from the U. S. and from every country in Europe, Asia, South America, even from the larger States of India and tribes of British Africa, all thought and spoke and made last things ready for the great event of the morrow. London was like a gigantic brain, every cell of which was focussed on one central thought. Like parts of a vast body conditioned by that brain, the world-wide Empire pulsed and stirred to the same thought-Coronation, England's 37th since William the Conqueror and the beginning of modern British history...
...death-cell last week in Plötzensee Penitentiary in Berlin sat pale-faced, intellectual Helmuth Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew who was arrested last December for plotting to kill with a bomb "a high German official" who newshawks quickly assumed was Dictator Hitler. Hirsch declared: "I expect no clemency and I am calm and await death with perfect composure." Less calm was Berlin's U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had gone to great pains to intercede for Prisoner Hirsch on the grounds that, though his family lives in Czechoslovakia, he is a U. S. citizen...