Word: sew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year's Rolleo, attended last week by hearties from 1,200 camps, was distinguished by the joyous rite of selecting "Pauline Bunyan," a suitable mate for skyscraping Paul. Ann Mclver was chosen, a strapping beauty who proved her ability to do best the feats that Bunyan demands?sew tremendous buttons, mend great-gaping socks, flip mighty flapjacks...
Candidate Winters was assiduously distributing his thimbles among Toledo females. On each thimble was emblazoned the legend: "SEW UP THE MAYOR'S RACE FOR WINTERS!" The clippings he pasted up on the front of his official headquarters?tales of recent Toledo crimes?to remind Toledo voters that Potentate Brown's candidate for reelection, Mayor William T. Jackson, had promised a crime cleanup, had not succeeded. The prize clipping related how the Brown Chief of Police had paid $7 to recover his watch from a pawnshop, whither it had been brought by a thief who had sneaked it from the room...
...police pistols. At last, thinking he had eluded his pursuers, James Cox stopped his car at the entrance to the Biltmore Hotel, leaped out, tripped on the curb, staggered into a heap on the pavement, and cut his forehead. A policeman leaped upon him, secured a doctor to sew up the cut. The doctor, after a look at James M. Cox Jr., said that he was drunk...
...Romans have a unique way of punishing some of their criminals. They tie them down on their back in the sun and then cover the victim's face with a thick layer of molasses for the flies to feast upon. . . . They whip [matricides] in public, and then they sew them up in a bull's hide together with a dog, a cock and a monkey, and throw them into the Tiber...
...paid staff of 20 persons-as able a repertory ensemble as may be found in this country-under Director Frederic McConnell. It has paid its own way from a small stagecraft shop in a small, abandoned church, where bankers and butchers, housewives and schoolteachers, came of an evening to sew costumes, paint scenery or strut the boards, to a resident repertory company in which there is still work for all comers but big roles only for the very, very proficient amateur, be she pretty co-ed from Western Reserve University or temperamental coal baroness. It is still a non-profit...