Word: crib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIB...
Police found an autobomba, rigged by three students, one the son of a National University engineering professor. Supposedly based on an invention of U. S. gangsters, it was an automobile with an iron crib slung underneath. In the crib were 350 lb. of dynamite and TNT, wired to the handbrake and the magneto. Its makers planned to abandon it in front of Havana's police headquarters. When police released the handbrake to drive it away, the huge charge would blow police and headquarters to scraps. The three riggers were whisked off to jail...
...effects, never gives you too much of anything, of some of her characters lets you have tantalizing glimpses that are not half enough. What she lets you see of young brother James, a glowering but attractive rebel, would make any reader call for more. In the silence of his crib James was given to versifying his wrongs. One scorcher...
...cooking since 5 a. m.. was served at tables on the lawn. Smacking over it Governor Roosevelt told his host: "I've eaten a lot of meals since I left home but this is the best yet." Afterwards he was driven out to inspect barn, hog lot. corn crib, silo, tractor, threshing machine. "Mighty fine! Mighty fine!" the Governor repeated. "You know. I've lived on a farm for 50 years." Mrs. Roosevelt gamely climbed barbed-wire fences. At the thresher the entire party was deluged with chaff. Before Governor Roosevelt started back to Omaha. Farmer Sumnick. his words...
...baby. He suggested that I turn her over my knee with her little feet to the fire and pat her back. ... In time, the disturbing ailment in her 'tummy' removed itself and I had a most peaceful infant who finally fell asleep and was put back in her crib, and I rejoined my guests one and one-half hours after their arrival...