Word: ruff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saint of Generosity, was born on Dec. 6, do their giving then. Dutchmen conceive the Saint as a bishop whose ecclesiastic dignity is above lugging presents around in a sack. This is done by his far from humble minion, Black Peter, a capering minstrel in braided doublet, van Dyck ruff and Renaissance plumed...
WMCA's frightened answer gave its show away. It had employed no code expert or anybody else to eavesdrop on admiralty communications; it bought all its ruff from the International News Service, from the Mirror, from the Herald Tribune; all it knew was what the papers said. As far as the trade press ads went, they had just seemed like a good idea at the time...
...Lord liked her letter, all right. It was right up his alley. Mollie arrived in a parasol of a beaver hat, a blousy frock with petticoat ruffles showing at the bottom over high-buttoned shoes. At her neck was a ruff of fluffy lace, setting off a face of infinite fiftyish sweetness. Lord read her letter over the air, let Mollie put in her own plea for fat boys. Next day they took her to the big stores, let her ride the escalators, bought her $50 worth of odds and ends, packed her off home...
...artificial respirator is a casket-like steel box 74 in. long, 65 in. high, 44 in. wide. At the front end is a rubber ruff through which Fred Snite's head projects face up, like a mystic's dream of bodiless intelligence. Within, on a sheeted mattress, lies his flaccid, wasted body covered with a night dress...
...minute a suction pump creates a slight vacuum within the respirator. This lifts Fred Snite's chest and pulls one pint of fresh air into his lungs. When the pump releases the vacuum, his chest falls and he exhales. Every time the machine inhales for him, the rubber ruff hugs his neck, and it was a long time before he learned to ignore the sensation of being throttled 21,600 times a day. Another annoyance to be ignored was the incessant throbbing of the pump. But he quickly learned to control his tongue and prevent its being sucked into...