Word: damping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine brands, each the width of a man's thumb, and serving to remind him of his nine vows as a Buddhist priest; 3) The branding was made endurable by covering his scalp (except on the spots to be branded) with pieces of raw turnip, damp and coolingly efficacious...
When the operators got their innings, they dressed the Senators up in mining togs and sent them riding on little cars through long, damp, dark coal galleries but continued to refuse intimate information about their businesses until it could be delivered under oath, beside Labor's testimony, when the investigators sit in judgment...
...shining calmly in the spot five hundred miles from shore where he claims that a tempest blew away all his instruments, food and signal charts. All the equipment is certainly gone, and it seems that only the word of the weather burean can keep Captain Giles from the damp quill and the two-a-day. But there will always remain a few skeptics who, keeping in mind that he admitted jettisoning 300 gallons of fuel, will class him with Cosy Dolan as the first to throw a World Series or a transoceanic flight...
ROARING BONES-Prince William of Sweden-Button ($2.50). Prince William of Sweden has amused himself with journeys into the damp green mysteries of Africa, with elephant hunting, exploring and literature. His former opus, Among Pygmies and Gorillas, was an account of a zoological probe into the centre of the dark continent. This is a volume of short stories; love stories, African anecdotes, color stories about a chief who understood black magic, a leopard hunt, a march of wild phantoms through the jungle. The obvious comment upon princes, even Swedish princes, who write books is that laudatory insult reserved, also...
...merely a man whom life has defeated: he is a generalization, a symbol, an inclusion of defeat. After a day of selling his pencils to the faces behind back doors, he crawls into a cattle shed near a railroad station, to sleep there tasting the dark murmur and damp smell of cows. "First he had been a bound boy, then a hired man. He had had a room over kitchens. For a summer or two he had tramped it, and slept in groves or in straw piles or on the hay in barns. But this place here, with...