Word: lidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jekyll brews broth of Hell, gulps down his potation, and with many a phthisical cough turns into "Mr. 'Ide," the terror of Limehouse. In Germany, Bavarian merrymaking is stilled as Frankenstein's monster stalks abroad. And somewhere in the English countryside, Count Dracula pushes up his mouldering coffin-lid, flicks the gravedirt from his shoulders, and adjusts his cravat for a pleasant evening...
Early one cold morning last week in Albany, N. Y. three employes of the Street Department rushed to Warren & Philip Streets to hunt a leak in the city's trunkline sewer. Expertly they flipped off the manhole lid. Ten feet below, icy black water, full of awful things, surged on to the Hudson. Once this sewer had been an open creek. When it was enclosed 35 years ago, engineers, according to the custom of the times, gave it great girth for a full current...
...Bureau of Mines. The Bureau of Mines thought the bomb should be opened at the Naval Research Laboratory. At the laboratory a squad of marines fired several rifle bullets into the box. Then an expert, working with mirrors and long implements from behind an iron shield, pried the lid open. They found the box packed full of small white tablets. Next day Claudius Hart Huston, onetime G. O. P. chairman, revealed that he had sent the tablets?a new form of concentrated heat?on behalf of an inventor friend who wanted an opinion on their marketability from encyclopedic Julius Klein...
Last week Dr. John C. Neill, assistant professor in ophthalmic mechanics at Pennsylvania State College of Optometry, pretended that he had ptosis, to demonstrate to a meeting of the American Academy of Optometry a new lid prop he had devised. To the nosepiece of his spectacles he had soldered two pieces of fine, stiff gold wire, bent to fit the upper curves of the eye sockets, forming non-irritating, comfortable hangers on which Dr. Neill's lids hung like little coats...
...pacific Baron Shidehara. The execution of Captain Nakamura was what they have been waiting for. Last week General Jiro Tamon, commandant at Mukden,* and other Japanese officers simply took matters into their own hands and acted without Cabinet authority. Baron Shidehara did his best to sit on the lid. There were emergency Cabinet meetings. Fearing superpatriots, police guards were posted at every Cabinet...