Word: cistern
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...waive his big royalty so that she. along with Baritone Nelson Eddy (Jochanaan) and Conductor Fritz Reiner, could give last week's performance for the jobless. Two hundred of them, organized as the Musicians' Symphony (see col. 1), sat and played on the stage last week where the yawning cistern should have been to hold Jochanaan prisoner, where two dark cypress trees should have stood sinisterly against an Oriental sky. Jeritza and Jochanaan were conventionally clothed but if she had worn veils and he a hair- cloth tunic the performance could not have caused more excitement. The audience stayed long...
...Cistern...
...wrappers, looking "like some tropical bird whose plumage had been dimmed and ruffled by captivity and whose cage was not kept as clean as it should be." It was at her irrational house with the Spink boys and girls that the best fun was to be found. Making the cistern water overflow from the attic and tobogganing with it down the stairs was a panacea for all childish ills...
When Dr. Fred Simon Morris, colleague of Dr. Evans, opened the boy's abdomen, it was a cistern of blood. Had there been anyone handy with blood suitable for transfusion the blood in Junior Evans' abdomen could have been sponged up, thrown away. With no suitable donor ready, autotransfusion was essential...
...Vardaman, Miss, are two farmer brothers similarly afflicted. Each works alternate half days. While one plows the other soaks himself in a creek. Every once in a while the worker saunters to the creek for a cool dowsing. The brothers have a sister who clunks herself in the cistern back of their house...