Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Landsheer engaged a room at once, rushed his wife into bed, sped away for assistance. Upon his return with a doctor, he found his wife dead, her face mottled, eyes bulging. Examination revealed that Mme. de Landsheer's tongue had somehow completely reversed itself and been drawn into her larynx, strangling...
...head, a part of him which seems to overweigh, though not to overbalance, his short, active frame. Seen by himself, he looks quite in proportion; seen against a background of other figures he suggests those pictures that cartoonists like to manufacture-a grave, photographed face, under which have been drawn a midget body, arms, and legs. Power often lives most bristlingly in little men. Mr. Wiley gives one immediately a sense of power, poised and acute. He has spent his life, beginning with a three-dollar-a-week job on a Rochester paper, in newspaper offices. He has more social...
...fight to retain the seven-hour day. The Seven Hours Act was temporarily abrogated by the Eight Hours Act (TIME, July 12 et seq.) which is the keystone of Premier Baldwin's anti-strike program. ¶ Learned that ten Church of England Bishops and twelve Nonconformist dignitaries had drawn up a proposal (seconded at once by the Miners' Federation conference) that Premier Baldwin repeal the Eight Hours Act in return for which the miners would agree to arbitration of wages. ¶ Smiled at alarmist reports that the ten Bishops would "stump the country" against Premier Baldwin...
...girls actually taking out their lipsticks in public. They used so much paint on their lips that they soaked it off with the soup and were obliged to make up again between courses!"); that have engaged "well-posted" young men to conduct Roach Straton to resorts whence might be drawn anathema upon modern dancing for a thoughtless, urbane congregation ("For surely, my friends, if there is any choice . . . the odds are all in favor of hugging on the sofa, as the dance is hugging set to music, and music always has an exciting effect . . . rhythmical motion . . . stimulus of music . . . bodily...
...mouse, prospected deeper into the indiscernible vagaries in the rear of a junk-wagon, retrieved the humble shoebag, departed triumphantly with it for its heartbroken owner - one Peter Audaim - after informing the surprised junkman that within it was concealed $1,200, Peter's life savings but recently drawn from the bank. The single clue to the identity of the junkman was the blue mattress which frugal Peter's unwitting spouse had included in her clever deal...