Word: sewn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German press was filled with pride last week when it made public a "last word" in civic modernity-an official airplane for Mayor Boess of Berlin. Germany is tightly sewn together by air routes between its principal cities. Officers of state invariably fly hither and thither to great public functions. But Mayor Boess-though, of course, he has a motor, a motor boat, and ample public money for his railway fare, when he wished to go, say, to the Leipzig fair- has lately felt almost medieval without a smart monoplane and liveried pilot...
...citizen of that city, had inserted the following clause in his will: "Make sure that I am really dead by having my head cut off in the presence of all my heirs." M. Vasquez's request was carried out faithfully. After the decapitation the head was again sewn to the body and placed in the coffin...
...husband, the atmosphere became charged with electrical emotion and the heart of every little Soviet flapper beat a rapid tattoo against her agitated bosom. The baby, "a little doll-like creature," nestling in her mother's arms, was dressed in white, except for a fringe of red roses sewn around her bonnet...