Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the 60-odd characters are a queer lot. Catherine's greatest friends were a retired courtesan, a worn-out sea captain, and the gravedigger's daughter, who was considered hardly decent because her only dress was a sack. At the inn where peg-legged Pamploix spent his evenings the innkeeper's wife was so squint-eyed that habitues would order a drink from one end of the bar, then slink quickly to the other end, where the drink would be served. It was the great ambition of the baker's old father, a paralytic...
...Southampton another group of people boarded another ship, which in her day had also been a Queen of the Seas. As they gathered round a long table under the dome of the main lounge, they were anything but gay. Most of them were solemn-faced businessmen in sack suits; a few were middle-aged women in fur coats. Like those on the Normandie, they had come for sentimental reasons-to bid for the fittings of R.M.S. Mauretania before that old & honorable ship should make her final journey to the shipbreakers' yards...
...Fred Mitchell was uncertain last night as to his starting pitcher, both Drib Braggiotti and Tom Bilodeau having been named for the post. In the event that Bilodeau pitches, Prouty will play first and Dick Fletcher will occupy center field. Should Braggiotti pitch, Bilodeau will held down the initial sack, with Dick Prouty in center field...
...spent most of the evening in each other's arms. Revelers in white ties included Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Education Commissar Bubnov, Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengolt. Only the most old-fashioned Belshevik guests such as Publicists Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, came dressed in proletarian sack suits. Tossing off the Ambassador's champagne, they sported all night with the excuse of waiting for his cocks to crow at dawn...
Success in the pelvis led to Elliott treat-ment of other body orifices with other shapes of rubber bags. Dr. James Malcolm MacKellar, assistant chief surgeon of Englewood, N. J. Hospital, treats sinusitis that way. He inserts a rubber sack the diameter of a lead pencil through each nostril to the top side of the soft palate. Each tube contains a partition which allows a steady flow of hot water. Sinus pains speedily cease as the water circulates. With another kind of Elliott rubber bag, Drs. John Henry Morrissey and Leo L. Michel of Manhattan, and a thousand others...