Word: mattoon
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...Anesthetist of Mattoon, Ill. (pop. 17,500) is a tall, thin man who wears a black skullcap, and carries an instrument not unlike a Flit gun. He moves through the night as nimbly and secretly as a cat, squirting a sweetish gas through bedroom windows. His victims cough, awaken with burning throats, and find themselves successively afflicted with: 1) nausea, 2) a temporary paralysis, and 3) a desire to describe their experiences in minutest detail. This latter result often enables them to overcome their symptoms with startling dispatch...
None of them has seen the Mad Anesthetist at his work, nor heard his hollow laugh. But last week citizens of Mattoon were watching for him, any and every midnight...
...once obvious to Mattoon's housewives that the anesthetist had baited Mrs. Cordes' porch with a cloth soaked in the same substance he squirted through windows. After that the number of his victims increased. Mattoon's ten policemen, who had been ignoring the archcriminal, now sallied forth at night, seeking they knew not what and not finding it. Chicago newsmen swept joyfully down upon Mattoon and wired leering accounts of The Gas Fiend, The Thin Man of Mattoon, The Mad Phantom and The Screwball Chemist...
...Biggest little party was the Socialist Party, the Wailing Wall where genteel liberals could go to decry Republicans and Democrats alike and cast a respectable protest vote against the cacophonies of conscription and capitalism. Their candidate for President: persistent, patient Norman Mattoon Thomas, who, seeing the U. S. drifting into "imperialism abroad and fascism at home," declared: "The only opportunity for escape is a change of the people towards a cooperative commonwealth with machinery harnessed to overcome poverty, and not for the use of militarism." For Vice President: Maynard C. Krueger, University of Chicago economist...
Well fed and thoroughly roasted at a National Press Club dinner in Washington were 1,679 pounds of potential candidates for President: U. S. Attorney General Robert Jackson, 165 Ibs.; New York's Representative Bruce Barton, 174; Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, 195; Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas, 185; Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, 205; Federal Security Administrator Paul Varies McNutt, 195; Michigan's Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 180; Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Holman Jones, 230; Manhattan District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, 150. Each gave a five-minute address (off the record) on "Reasons...