Word: mailbags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burden. In Hazebrouck, France, Postman Maurice Croquey confessed that he had failed to deliver some 800 letters, newspapers and circulars found in his house because they made his mailbag too heavy, admitted burning 200 other pieces of mail because they had been cluttering up his parlor...
...been robbed in March, decided: "It is just not our year." Jockey Sir Gordon Richards, on the other hand, was convinced that there is some honor among thieves when his stolen spurs and gold cigarette case, a gift from King George V, turned up in the Scotland Yard mailbag after his public appeals to the thief's "sportsmanship...
...exactly how many doctors he has seen, but his mother puts the number at 350. The doctors have tried such standard remedies as sedatives and drugs to slow down the impulses in the phrenic nerve, which controls the diaphragm. Jack has tried many of the unorthodox suggestions from his mailbag, and friends once tried to scare him out of his hiccups by phoning and impersonating the FBI. The scare only made him hiccup harder...