Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baby was born. Nurse Meyer sang out "Male!" The student aid wrote on a piece of adhesive plaster, "Male, No. 70"; slapped the plaster on the baby's back. In the shake of a dead lamb's tail the baby was on its way to the nursery; in a longer jiffy the mother was trundled towards her hospital bed; and interne and nurses washed their hands, turned around for the next case. Ten minutes later Mrs. Sam Smith's own doctor came, looked at hospital records, genially congratulated Sam Smith on the birth...
...method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing...
...fine chandelier! thought Mr. Healy, and said so. A darlin' chandelier! Springing, he seized a loop of it in his hairy hand and swung himself into the air. Crystals fell in a tinkling shower. Mr. Healy roared with joy. The fixture groaned, plaster crumbled-down went Mr. Healy with the chandelier atop him. Messrs. Tiernan and Dacey rocked in woozy mirth...
...stiff, white strip of sticking plaster was stuck last week over a long gash extending from the forehead to the right eye of Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary...
Despite the sticking plaster, his right eye still clamped with a firm grip his internationally famed monocle. As he entrained at London the Foreign Secretary's left arm clamped with equal firmness a copy of British Foreign Secretaries, a study of eleven statesmen from...