Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish Hospital left Aaron Handler, dying of heart disease, alone for a while. Then a dull boom from his room recalled nurses and internes on a dead run. They found Aaron Handler's beard a shriveling, stinking torch fanned by the breeze of oxygen. Whether the electric pump emitted a combustive spark, or whether his beard generated a spark by rubbing against the woolen blanket will never be known. Aaron Handler died silently of burns, shock and heart failure...
...Exhibited at the National Hotel Exposition in Manhattan were an automatic device for detecting bogus money and bad checks, a pump apparatus for dealing with flooded bathrooms, a meat-softening substance called tendra which is extracted from a South Sea Island plant...
Supper in the Sanctum. More very good friends. Pump hands, throw arms around shoulders talk loud and fast. Everyone extremely amiable, everyone extremely clever, exceptional company. Exceptional company indeed. Out, and on to town, Jostling In the subway, singing, other noise, numbers of people carrying sunflowers wearing western sambreros. A regular Harvard cheer for Roosevelt...
Roosevelt. He's well-known in labor spy circles. . . . Jones has got a flock of guys out in the field, in several states, passing themselves off as newspapermen. They blow our people to parties, buy them drinks and all that, and then pump them...
...deal with a skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School in 1895. In California, Dr. Watts, 62, was noted for his competency in performing abortions, for the invention of numerous surgical appliances useful in his specialty, including a suction pump to clean the uterus after an operation and a method of quickly reducing the uterus to normal size after an abortion...