Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verge of bearing her seventh child, perhaps twins. They dispatched Ovila down the rocky, forest-edged road to Dr. Dafoe's, placed kettles and pots of water to boil, laid out clean towels and a bottle of olive oil on the new bedroom bureau, lined a wicker clothesbasket with pads and sheets to receive the newcomer, washed their hands, and composed themselves to watch a labor which no one expected for at least another month...
...prolific French-Canadians. His youngest mother was 13, his oldest 63. Once he delivered a two-headed monster. One of his patients has borne 23 children, only one of whom has died, and that one, said Dr. Dafoe last week when he had an opportunity to relax in the wicker easy-chair in his library, "was dead at birth. It was one of twins. I remember I was alone with the mother at the time. The father had left the farmhouse to hunt for his horse that had run away...
...timbers, ropes, boards. Trained like circus roustabouts, a crew of workmen sprang into action. In three-quarters of an hour uprights and braces were screwed together, the pulley strung, platform, trip lever and block slipped into place. A bale of fresh dry straw was ripped open, a zinc-lined wicker casket was unloaded, and Mme Guillotine raised high her thin red arms in the pale Provençal light...
Month ago 14 members of the "Blood Brotherhood" who assassinated two prominent Japanese of pacifist tendencies last year were placed on trial (TIME, July 10). They still sat in court last week with wicker baskets over their heads, as is the Japanese rule in case of capital crimes. What the police feared was another wave of assassinations staged by patriotic youths who think that Japan has not yet seized enough Chinese soil. Since the present Government is honestly trying to grab all it safely can, Tokyo police, who are sometimes patriotically lenient toward would-be assassins, made real and strenuous...
Last fortnight Hemingway, a few Cubans and the usual wicker demijohn of wine went swordfishing. In July and August the big marlins come down from...