Word: sweatbox
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Cairo sizzled at a temperature of 104°-which is too hot even for Egyptians-and the Barlman or Parliament was a steaming little sweatbox, with room only for the Royal Family, Deputies, Senators and diplomats. Here last year, upon the death of Fuad I, the President of the Barlman held up for all to see the envelope into which 13 years before His Late Majesty had sealed the names of three Egyptians whom he wished to act as Regents during the minority of the present King. A flashlight and a magnifying glass were produced to aid the speaker...
...fine Iowa morning last week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...
...take Robert Elliott Burns back to one of its notorious chain gangs. Almost everybody in New Jersey thought he had a good idea of what a chain gang was like. The case of Arthur Maillefert, 22-year-old New Jersey boy who died last summer in a Florida sweatbox, was fresh in mind (TIME, Oct. 24). Radio and Press had broadcast the Burns story: how he went to War, returned jobless, was convicted of a $5.85 grocery robbery in Atlanta, escaped once to set up a substantial business in Chicago, escaped the second time to write his cinematized book...
Once, while being held in a jail, he tried to poison himself. The second night he was placed in the sweatbox followed his fourth break for freedom. He was not wearing the barrel, but his neck was chained to the roof. His feet were nailed down in heavy stocks. When he was found dead a justice of the peace directed that there be no inquest. The Press stirred up a fury of public indignation over the affair. County Detective Gasque investigated. Murder indictments were returned against Acting Guard Captain George W. Courson, a 285-lb. hulker, and Solomon Higginbotham...
...yellow.' I told him I must be yellow then because I was not going to kill him. I asked him if he was sick or anything and he said, 'Not a thing wrong.' I told him I was going to have to put him in the sweatbox. Jersey said to me, 'I'm going home.' I said, 'No you're not.' He said, 'Well, I'm going to hell then...