Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What percentage of mankind will jab a hatpin, ice pick or nail file through a knothole or key hole when they have reason to suspect that a human eye is pressed against the exterior of such an orifice...
...make a woman beautiful is to pierce a hole through the flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command...
...Merseles' election was seen when Johns-Manville preferred stock, commonly inactive, jumped six points (to 82%) on the Manhattan Curb the day of the news. What he felt about his election, besides gratification, may have been that this time the company he takes in hand is in no hole. It owns many factories, its own asbestos mines. The Merseles genius will have a clear field to try and put fireproof ("try an' burn it") roofing on the whole U. S. without delay...
Blimp Jinx. At Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex., the nonrigid dirigible TC-10 243 of the U. S. Army was ready to take the air. But one of its anchors stuck, causing a cable to rip a hole in the gas bag. Unbalanced, the dirigible floundered stupidly, smashed its gondola (cabin) against the ground, ripped its gas bag to shreds, let loose 200,000 cubic feet of valuable helium. The crew of seven escaped unhurt. Major Harold A. Strauss, who was in command of this unfortunate blimp, recalled that another blimp of his had exploded on the same spot...
...Pineville, La., waters lapped toward the grammar school. Elmo Rich, 11, waded in them, stepped into a deep hole, drowned...