Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When I returned to my hotel my nerves gave way, although for the last hour and a half I had had myself under complete control. The very second I laid down my hat and coat, a cold sweat such as I had never known in my life before broke out all over my body-the physical reaction which naturally followed the unutterable psychic strain. And then for the first time I knew that the worst hour of my life lay behind...
Sleek, porcine, bejeweled and bespatted, "Scarface Al" last week came to grips with the law once more in his amazing extra-legal career. He admitted that he weighed 235 Ib. but protested: "I'll sweat it off this summer." As he entered Chicago's Federal Court, onlookers were surprised at the absence of a bodyguard. -'Much of this talk about my guards is bunk. Most of them are my guests," he said...
...German citizens who have done business with the Soviet Government, Slasher Churchill mentioned particularly "young Mr. [William Averell] Harriman," thrust home this characteristic conclusion: "All in turn have sought to clasp that clammy hand. All in turn have recoiled injured, infected or at least defiled by its chill, poisonous sweat. But there are plenty of simpletons left to be gulled or bribed...
...called on him and told him he was "out of the contract." "I asked him what he meant and he said: 'How can I afford to pay you 25% and Billy Gibson 25% and that 25% that Gibson tied me up for in Philadelphia? Here I toil and sweat up in the mountains. . . .' He ran his hands through his hair and said in a loud voice 'I don't know what this is all about...
...Crane, Mo., mourners held up a funeral procession when they saw beads of sweat on the unembalmed corpse's forehead. A physician applied restoratives vainly, finally pronounced Mrs. Archie Dunnegan dead a second time. The funeral continued...