Word: oram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bobbed up from the depths-the first to escape from the foundered submarine. He wore a Davis lung, a contraption resembling the U. S. Momsen lung, consisting of a life belt, an oxygen container, a breathing tube, a nose clip. Half-drowned, he was Captain H. P. K. Oram, commander of the Fifth Submarine flotilla but not of the Thetis. Before he knew that help was at hand he had volunteered to take his chances getting out of the dangerously tilted escape chamber. He and six others, with messages of the submarine's plight strapped to their wrists, were...
Such smart detective work so impressed Coroner E. T. Oram that he encouraged police to hold an Irishman named Brady on a charge of murder because Smith was last seen when he left his home to go fishing with Brady. "Keep your mouth shut!" lawyers advised, and Pat Brady set his Irish jaw. Last week before the Commonwealth's High Court Brady's counsel cited a basic maxim of Anglo-Saxon law, argued: "There can be no inquest, much less a trial for murder, without a corpus delicti and one tattooed human arm disgorged by a shark...