Word: lamped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brain, his gaze drifted around the many walls which encircle his new penthouse cubicle. Before him the desk, the calendar, the typewriter. Well enough; they had been so in the past. And there was the Falstaffian old leather Morris chair with its spinster companion, the ever slightly drunken bridge lamp, leaning confidentially over its shoulder--looking the same as ever. But will the old combination still breed the same pleasant spawn of thoughts, the Vagabond wondered? Could they still whisper the same mental innuendoes of Donne when he thought of English 30, or of Dewing when he thought...
...slaying Brazil's famed, long-hunted bandit, Lampeão, "the Lamp Post" (TIME, Aug. 8), the police of Alagoas State last week received: 1) $5,000; 2) six freshly hacked human heads...
...reward for the most recent killing of the Lamp Post, and its payment was proof enough to skeptical Brazilians that this time the Government believed him dead. The six heads were the grisly gift from the remaining members of the Lamp Post's gang, and belonged to inhabitants of a remote interior settlement who were massacred and decapitated in retaliation for the Lamp Post's death. One head was that of the aged grandfather of an Alagoas police lieutenant who led the attack on the bandit chief...
Last week Alagoas' unfortunate police received word that the surviving bandits would burn every village in the countryside, massacre the inhabitants, send their heads to headquarters. The message came as a shock, for it was sent by "Corisco," one of the Lamp Post's lieutenants, whom the Government has also killed several times...
...strike in Montego Bay. Since then, Jamaica has been simmering like coffee in a percolator. Last winter cane-cutters on the sugar plantations at the east end of the island refused to work. The strike spread down the railroad to Kingston. Longshoremen, street cleaners, tobacco workers, bus drivers, lamp-lighters struck at once. Police were jittery, fired on crowds in the streets. The strikes were won, but some dozen Negroes were killed. For five months there were quick daily strikes on plantations...