Word: limes
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...house salesman of vacuum cleaners. The first two weeks it was no sale. But the third week things began to break. He went on to open an electrical appliances store. Then he founded Columbia Electric & Manufacturing Co., Wayne-Burnady Co. (electrical contracting and engineering), and bought up Washington Brick & Lime...
...found another bag stuffed with a cloven corpse. In No. 21's furnace they found four charred female bodies. In No. 21's closets they picked up assorted limbs and 30 pairs of women's shoes. In No. 21's courtyard they dug into a lime-filled pit, hauled up the residue of 13 cadavers. But nowhere did they find the fiend responsible for France's goriest mass murder since whisker-ruffed Henri Désiré Landru, the 1920s' Bluebeard of Gambais, slaughtered ten women...
...Paris demimonde. In Paris Soir a Madame Parisinot told how she had recently called on Dr. Petiot for treatment of a swollen wrist. Like the Bluebeard of the fairy tale (see cut), the Bluebeard of the rue Le Sueur had a magnetic eye. But otherwise, with his lime-stained hands and rough work clothes, he looked like a bricklayer...
Stop calling the American worker "complacent," and allow him to buy a roast of beef every week. Throw some chloride of lime on the stink in Washington, and the nation will get its 100% production...
...herds. Wherever there was a cow with ropy spittle, dollar-size blisters in its mouth and rotting hoofs, the whole herd was liquidated. Trench diggers dug the graves, the cattle were herded in, the rifles crackled. When the cows were dead their hides were slashed, the bodies covered with lime, the graves covered up. Not a trace of the infected cows must remain...