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...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...
Thacher defeated Bohlen 3 to 2 after a gruelling session on the court. He took the first game after a sew saw battle with an 18-15 count. Bohlen turned the tables in the next game by taking the University court man into camp by a 15-16 score. Thacher took the third game, but dropped the fourth by the same count. In the fifth round he steadied down to take the game and match. The team suffered its first setback of the afternoon when Gammell swept Stewart to defeat. Oliver made up for this by defeating Gardner easily...
...Like all the rest of you, even when she was very tiny, she was busily doing whatever mother was doing and early learned to sew, to knit, to dust, to sweep, to set the table, to stand on a box and help with the dishes at the sink, to dry them shinily and to put them away on the cupboard shelves...