Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot her in the head. They dug a hole in the basement, dumped her in, and cemented up her grave. Deliphene's baby cried noisily and refused to be comforted. Two days later Martha took her into the basement too, and held her head in a tub of water until she died...
...walled university city, the base for covering North China, was graceful, unhurried, and for a foreigner with U.S. dollars comparatively cheap. Newsmen came for brief visits and, taken by Peiping's ancient charms, often stayed on for months in Ta Tien Shui Ching Hutung (Big Sweet Water Well Alley), Peiping's correspondents...
After long reflection, Director Heil bought the boy (for a price he regards as his secret) and took him home for a good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...
...regrets were felt over the loss of the rickety gray building with the low ceiling and the one cold water spigot that had previously passed for a gymnasium. "Chemical laboratory bottles upstairs juggled dangerously when anything more violent than Swedish movements was done," a reminiscence in the 1900 Yearbook reads. One member of the class of 1897 donated a large tin tub from home for the girls to bathe in after exercising...
...eleven, Nebraska-born Art Stoddard went to Texas with his father, a grading contractor who was helping to build the Rock Island Line. Art got a job as water boy at 25? a day. He worked on railroads on & off while finishing school, joined the U.P. as a shop helper. After a World War I stint as a Navy radio operator, he worked up through U.P.'s ranks as a telegrapher, train dispatcher, trainmaster, assistant superintendent...