Word: cisterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Wayne, Ind., Mrs. Dorothy Johnson was told that her four-year-old son had fallen into a cistern. She dived in. Neighbors rescued her, took her home to find her son there safe & sound...
...great has been the Virginia drought that the water in the cistern at the Rapidan camp was last week reduced to a few inches. On the advice of caretakers the President limited his week-end guest list to three. At the camp he saw his son Herbert Hoover Jr. who next month will be removed to Asheville, N. C., to continue his fight against tuberculosis...
...transformed from a querulous princess intrigued by a captive prophet into a voluptuous animal crying brutally for the love, the body, the life of Jochanaan. Her Dance of the Seven Veils was lascivious, her entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come. When she raised the cloth on the silver platter to kiss the dead lips listeners sat in amazement at the incompatible hate and golden singing...