Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week a Wisconsin Legislative committee at Madison was winding up a series of investigations into the conduct of State hospitals for the insane. Samples of testimony offered by inmates, relatives, onetime attendants: ¶ Among attendants at Oshkosh's hospital, to "neck out" means to rope a wet towel around an inmate's neck, twist. On Jan. 26 an attendant "necked out" Inmate Oscar Schrader so thoroughly that he died. Five other Oshkosh deaths apparently resulted from brutal treatment. ¶ When Clark Lyman entered Mendota's hospital on Feb. 14, 1931 he was in good physical condition...
...Blue Men of the Rio de Oro" and their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified...
...that the picture was taken at a publisher's birthday party and he had no idea who the gentleman he was embracing was. All this was very depressing for Raymond Hubert. Wandering home from the Palais de Justice he jumped into the Seine. Police fished him out. Dripping wet, he got as far as the middle of the Pont de Solférino when he jumped into the Seine again. He landed in front of a large barge, whose sailors pulled him out with a boat-hook and sent him to a hospital...
...started back to his job. For fellow passengers he had a Manhattan advertising man and an Ohio sanitary engineer. Pilot Walter Hallgren had made the St. Louis-Chicago run for six years and was approaching his millionth flight mile. After the plane had bored 100 mi. into Illinois, thick, wet snow began to envelop it. The Chicago radio operator heard its pilot report: "Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings and tail." Hallgren did not hear Chicago order him to turn back to St. Louis. He felt his plane settling groggily, looked for a landing place...
...once decided to deport him Jan. 31, argued his future for two hours. The Foreign Minister, having taken the brunt of U. S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh's ire, was for deportation, the Minister of Interior against. Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was on the fence. The spell of cold, wet weather Greece has been having decided the argument. Premier Tsaldaris announced that "in the present inclement weather, it would be murder to deport Mr. Insull unless his health improves." Given his cue, Insull's Greek lawyer moaned: "It is impossible to imagine Mr. Insull traveling. He is practically dying...