Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hole Eggs Sirs: Now, sir, will you have your mysteries-with eggs or without them? That Switz spying affair seems to be hard enough for those French gendarmes to unravel, but now-well, let us see what TIME has brought. ". . . Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in end of each." (TIME, April 2, p. 16.) Now there is a mystery that will make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats...
...Federal agent testified that the Bishop had told him: that in December 1928, the Bishop "found himself in somewhat of a hole," went to a Richmond bank to borrow money, while there looked into a safe deposit box, found $5,000 in cash that he had "forgotten...
Near Lansdale, Pa., Bell Telephone Co. workers dug a hole in the property jointly owned by Miss Sarah Buzby, 70, and her sister Kate, 81. Next morning the Bell men returned with a telephone pole, made ready to sink it in the hole. Miss Sarah & Miss Kate objected. The Bell men laid down the pole, began to explain. Miss Sarah & Miss Kate sat on the pole. Stymied, the Bell men fetched a second pole, sank it while Miss Sarah & Miss Kate guarded the first. Miss Sarah sawed the second pole through in two hours, apologized to the helplessly watching Bell...
Biddy Mrs. Hicks, summoned to the scene of the crime the next morning for the express purpose of cleaning up the glass, took one look at the huge hole in the window, asked one penetrating question: "Was the window open when he threw the revolver?"; offered one valuable suggestion: "You better shake out your shoes before you wear them again...
Only a few of the larger animals give Frank Buck occasional trouble. This picture shows him dancing uneasily around a cobra, escaped from its crate; herding wild elephants into a corral; scooping a man-eating tiger out of a hole in the ground; catching a leopard in a snare. Other animals which appear in Wild Cargo are flying foxes, water buffalo, mouse-deer, gibbons, orangutans, tapirs. Most appealing are a white Rhesus monkey and a honey bear engaged in a calm, incompetent wrestling bout; most alarming, the python who slithers forlornly through Wild Cargo, strangling a black panther, frightening...