Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen a customer's child strangling in the same condition as was Mrs. Lambert's. Firemen had helped save that first child by means of a pulmotor. Patrolman Di Lorenzo remembered how the pulmotor worked. He placed his mouth to that of the child and sucked. A plug of mucous came loose; he spat it away. He blew into her throat, sucked; blew, sucked-until she could breathe by herself and live...
...over,' she said, 'Wernie wants to talk to you.' She always called the Pres ident 'Wernie.' I went over and found the President sitting all alone in his office and evidently very depressed. He said, 'Merry Christmas,' reached into a right-hand drawer of his desk, pulled out a plug of Piper Heidsieck and took a chew. He got up and looked out on the White House garden and said: 'Help yourself to a cigaret...
...Lieut. Colonel Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus Cambridge, Marquis of Cambridge, Earl of Eltham, Viscount Northallerton, eldest brother of Queen Mary of the British Commonwealth of Nations, following an operation for duodenal ulcer; near Shrewsbury. Died. Albert Champion, 49, president of the A-C spark plug Company...
...McAvoy, Dartmouth end, added that "Harvard had a powerful line that followed the ball unusually well, but the score shows the difference in methods of offense. Harvard's plug-a-way style could not possibly net the same yardage as Dartmouth's varied offensive attack," McAvoy seconded MacPhail's praise of the Harvard center, but declined to comment upon the work of the Crimson ends...
Many is the angler who, having lashed a lake vainly with fly or plug, or plumbed it for empty hours with hook and sinker, has wished that the waters might suddenly be rent or snatched away by some miracle, exposing the bottom and, on it, all the flopping creatures whose presence has not been betrayed by appetite...