Word: tented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stitched with catgut. A small opening was left in which Dr. Nicoll inserted a rubber drainage tube. Then he tucked the ribs back in place with 50 stitches. A week later, after several blood transfusions, the drainage tube was removed. For five weeks Patrolman Manning remained in an oxygen tent, and for several months he was given massages to stimulate his heart muscles. Last week Manhattan papers reported that Patrolman Manning was well enough to attend Magistrate's Court for the hearing of his case...
...nearly three years after J. David Stern went to New York and bought the Post, clever little Publisher Roy Howard of "the World-Telegram remarked: "I wonder what's going to happen to the Post when Dave takes it out from under the oxygen tent...
...office, with his mallet wrist strapped to keep a loose tendon in place, it looked bad for Sonny Whitney's side. A few moments later it looked even worse when Sonny was cracked on the forehead by Cousin Jock's mallet, carried to a first aid tent to have the gash stitched together. But, like most poloists who refuse to be downed unless they are out, Westbury's Back was back in the game, after a rest of 20 minutes, with a bandage around his head, carrying on like the spirit...
...main tent, when the eating was over, the orthodox Republican audience received orthodox Republican pabulum. Chief speakers were New York's Representative (former Senator) James W. Wadsworth and National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. Excerpts: Mr. Wadsworth-"Wherever we turn, we are confronted with Federal money, billions of it. It is used brazenly in tempting the States and their subordinate municipalities into acquiescence. To put it boldly, much of this tempting should be called bribery-the bribery of an unsuspecting people into acquiescence." Mr. Hamilton-"In less than four years Congress has appropriated for WPA use alone the gigantic...
...special train) at an obscure siding and gallops off to find the underprivileged. On such occasions local governors are under strict orders that the President is not to be guarded. They know he means it, and they try to keep their troops always just beyond the next hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusk the Cárdenas party of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan...