Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before he knew what had happened, Mr. Leavitt found himself holding a gunny sack and into his ear a voice ? he thought it was Cliff Dailey's ? was urgently whispering: "Quick! Get rid of this! Out the back...
...Leavitt popped out the rear door of the store to reach his car, parked in the alley. Up stepped two U. S. Prohibition agents. They opened his sack, found it contained 19 bottles of whiskey, arrested...
...Santa Monica, Brother-in-Law Leavitt began to explain: "I grabbed the bag and now I'm holding it. I didn't know what was in the sack but I tried to be a good fellow. ... I guess anyone would try to help another out in a case like that. . . . One of the officers whispered that I should give the name of Jones. I objected but he insisted. ... I don't agree with Hoover on the Dry question? but I wasn't drinking." (A year ago Brother-in-Law Leavitt was arrested for intoxication, paid a $25 fine...
Sugar-coated Hearts. The heart itself is contained in a double sack, or pericardium. The inner sack fits snugly against the heart. The outer sack is just big enough to let the heart expand comfortably. Often enough to concern doctors the sacks become inflamed, from pneumonia, rheumatic fever and other infectious diseases. The sacks may stick together. Or the outer sack may adhere to the inside of the chest wall or to the upper side of the diaphragm. Or fibrous bands may develop and constrict the heart. During early pericardiac inflammation, Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner of Cornell University pumps...
Meanwhile at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, nearest airport to Garden City, the 1911 flight was to be reenacted by Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones in a 1911 Curtiss "pusher," and by Dean Smith, crack airmail pilot and Antarctic flyer of the Byrd expedition, in a Pilgrim monoplane. One sack of mail was to be dropped by parachute near the Mineola postoffice, the remainder flown to Newark for transfer to regular airmail planes...