Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Star he nosed the beaten track of hospital, morgue and jail. War was in all minds, however, and a few months later he joined an ambulance unit bound for the Italian front. There he transferred to the Italian infantry; soon after, in a trench-mortar explosion, got a wound that retired him from active service. Of his War experiences, Author Hemingway speaks modestly, says usually, "I spent most of the time in hospitals." He carried this attitude so far that when his War-novel (A Farewell to Arms) was being cinematized he took pains to deny all publicity stories...
...Staten Island last week, a 57-year-old WPA house painter used a grasshopper in a bottle to lure a 4-year-old child to a shack in a marsh where he attacked her, strangled her, and then left her dead under a 50-lb. lump of brick and mortar. In The Bronx it was discovered that nine little girls aged 9 to 12 had been voluntarily submitting to indecencies at the hands of a 56-year-old plumber and a garage proprietor, 64. In Brooklyn, a 37-year-old ex-convict, only seven months out of Sing Sing where...
...degree Mason Franklin Roosevelt took a trowel in hand and with a dab of real mortar laid the cornerstone of the future home of the Federal Trade Commission (see p. 55), a structure known as the Apex Building because it will tip the triangle of Government buildings between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues...
...Masters. Busses hustled them out to the river front parks where cooking, dining, administration tents and innumerable little wooden comfort stations had already been erected. The arrivals scattered over 350 acres, erected bright-colored tents for themselves, pounded tent pegs and fingers. At 8:45 next morning a trench mortar boomed and 25,000 Boy Scouts stood at attention. It boomed again and the flags of 52 nations rose in an avenue of flags beneath the Washington Monument. It boomed a third time, up went 1,634 flags to 1,634 mastheads throughout the encampment. The ten-day Jamboree...
...shake "Daddy's" hand and take tea at his trim Georgian house. By night the campus was aglow with two dozen giant silver candles, for this week James Madison Wood will celebrate his silver jubilee by graduating his 25th Stephens class, whose members will wear silver gowns and mortar boards...