Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back in the Park.) "Kill him! Kill him! Lynch him!" cried angry voices in the crowd around Joe Zangara. The police yanked him to a waiting car into which some of his victims were being loaded. They shoved him onto the trunk rack, mounted guard on the bumpers. The car jerked forward. Joe Zangara fell off. Police threw him back on, held him down...
...trees to pose. We had a grand sort of Englishman with us. 'Hi there,' he would call, 'do you want some nice beads for your wife? Very well then, come down and pose.' I had my armature and clay mounted on the trunk rack behind the car, and worked on that. The heat was awful...
...book is a family affair, something that Dwight Taylor found in the trunk of his late great stepfather. J. Hartley Manners, and renovated with the help of Samuel Hoffenstein (Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing). Very little attention is paid to it when dapper Fred Astaire, separated from his sister Lady Cavendish for the first time, is talking, dancing or singing with willowy, sexy Claire Luce...
...DOLL'S TRUNK MURDER?Helen Reilly?Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Seven strangers, each with motive, each suspecting each of the murder in a snow-bound lonely farmhouse...
...Henry Swartley Ruth, Philadelphia homeopath, who attended the Congress of Anesthetists in Manhattan last week, recommended alcohol as a pain killer. He traces the sensory nerve leading from the site of the cancer and injects about a cubic centimeter of 45% alcohol near the point where the nerve trunk joins the spinal cord. The alcohol deadens the pain completely, does not interfere with muscular action. One of Dr. Ruth's treatments lasts from three to six months, may be repeated. Dr. Mario Dogliotti of Turin, Italy, told the anesthetists that he gets similar benefits by injecting seven...