Word: lid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden jerk as if he [Dr. Olivecrona] had seized the opening with a pair of forceps. It was followed by a straining sensation, a feeling of pressure, a cracking sound, and a terrific wrench. . . . Something broke with a dull noise. . . . Each cracking sound reminded me of taking the lid off a jamjar, while the process as a whole was like splitting open a wooden packing case, plank by plank...
...socialites own homes at Saratoga). Portly George H. Bull, President of the Saratoga Association, leased not one but three villas to take care of his guests. Arrowhead, Piping Rock and other famed casinos were busy taking the covers off their roulette wheels, for rumor had it that the lid, clamped down last year, would be off this season...
...beer bottle flying by night through the window of a bawdy house, a volley of answering pistol shots flying out of the house, were the projectiles, fired last February, which last fortnight blew the lid off the city government of Champaign, Ill. Indicted for the murder of Sophomore William Spurrier of the University of Illinois was Mrs. Margaret Strothers, Negro proprietress of the bawdy house. Indicted for intentional dereliction of duty in not suppressing vice were Champaign's Mayor James D. Flynn, Chief of Police Roy Argo, State's Attorney Fred B. Hamill, former Sheriff Clarence W. Roth...
...texts. Several years ago at ceremonies to install Dr. Roland Hill as president of the St. Louis Medical Society, a large box was presented to the guest of honor, after a long speech celebrating his accomplishments. Urged by his distinguished colleagues to open the box, Dr. Hill removed the lid, took out a pair of carpet slippers. For a moment he was shocked, then he threw back his head and laughed: "Only Tom Cullen would have done this...
Swift Hungarian columns darted northward over snow-choked roads through the western mountain passes of Carpatho-Ukraine as soon as Hungary learned that the lid was off. Late the second day of the occupation, one frostbitten contingent reached the Polish border, where a Polish colonel ecstatically kissed the Hungarian commander while their troops embraced (see cut). Polish frontier guards welcomed the Hungarian soldiers as brothers and thawed them out in a guard station...