Word: sockets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colyumist Gibbons, 43, younger-looking, bulky, flat-nosed, wears a white linen patch over his left-eye socket. The eye was shot out by a machine gun at Chateau-Thierry. When he broadcasts he rushes into the studio at the last minute, tosses his coat aside, keeps his hat on, sits down at a table with cigaret in hand and rattles off 217 words per minute...
...Battle Creek, Mich., Duane Thornton sprinkled gasoline on his overstuffed furniture to kill moths, rushed to the window to escape the fumes, tripped over an electric light cord. A spark from the dislodged socket set fire to the gasoline-soaked furniture, burned up $3,000 worth of furnishings...