Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning early in July the wife of Dee Wyatt, Negro sharecropper living on the banks of White River near Newport, Ark. shuffled out to her backyard pump, drew a bucket of water, groaned a mite as she paused to rest her back. Casually she glanced across the turgid river, then shrieked and scurried into the ramshackle house after her husband. Dee Wyatt popped his head out, took one look, and straightway headed for the home of Bramlett Bateman, nearest white farmer. He and his wife, he informed Farmer Bateman, had seen a monster. Neither of them had been drinking. Farmer...
...boll weevil bigots," "creatures whose mouths are slits . . . whose eyes pop out at you like frogs', whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy." He had faced witnesses with the uneasy feeling that "one can never tell when one of those hill billies [among the spectators] will pump a six-gun at him." He had done it all absolutely without charge or fee, paying even his own expenses. "What a glorious opportunity it was for the lot to fall to a Jew to strike a blow for the emancipation of the colored race! ... It has given me a vista...
...biggest racketeers two decades ago. None was more fantastic than Fallon's reputed stunt of gulleting a bottle of poison, completing his argument to the jury, sauntering out of the court and then rushing frantically to a private room where waiting doctors cleaned him out with a stomach pump...
When Fred Snite Sr. decided to move his paralyzed son from Peiping to Chicago, he first had to arrange for supplies of electricity to operate the respirator's pump. Last week everything was in order. The respirator containing the young man was rolled into an elevator of the Union Medical College Hospital. The electric extension cord to the motor was disconnected. The elevator dropped to the ground level where another extension cord restarted the motor. When the invalid recovered his breath, he was rolled onto a motor truck, where a special gasoline motor was generating electricity. The respirator...
...Congratulations on your success as an oilman," wired Harry Ford Sinclair to his only son and namesake one day last week. A sophomore at Dartmouth, just turned 21, Harry Ford Jr. cranked a pump one summer in a Long Island filling station near the Sinclair estate, spent his last vacation as a deckhand on a Sinclair tanker. But that was not what Oilman Sinclair referred to in his wire. Harry Jr. wanted to quit college, go to work, so last week as a surprise Mr. Sinclair had him elected a director, member of the executive and finance committees of Consolidated...