Word: woolen
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...dull boom from his room recalled nurses and internes on a dead run. They found Aaron Handler's beard a shriveling, stinking torch fanned by the breeze of oxygen. Whether the electric pump emitted a combustive spark, or whether his beard generated a spark by rubbing against the woolen blanket will never be known. Aaron Handler died silently of burns, shock and heart failure...
...Simple Bookmark, in which the operator by lifting his reading glasses releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb which causes a small dog to weep into a sponge whose added weight puts into operation a magic lantern which casts on the book's cover the likeness of a man who has stolen the wife of an angry dwarf who plunges a dagger through the picture and into the book, stopping when he strikes a pet flea who jumped between the pages to sleep when the book was laid down...
...Prince Edward of Kent, 6th in line of succession to the Throne, was officially announced to have "entertained" his parents the Duke and Duchess of Kent last week on his first birthday. Prince Edward wore the latest thing in woolen suits, knitted for him by Queen Mary, and during afternoon tea cooed and gurgled at his sugar cake with one candle. His mother last week canceled all social engagements for the winter, thus intimating to the pleased British populace that she is expecting a second child. ¶Queen Mary's amiable brother Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge...
...electrical connections were shielded against sparking in the presence of sewer gas whose explosive power, Mr. Brown told reporters, was such that 36 cu. ft. of it was equal to one ton of dynamite. Last week Mr. Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers, short hockey pants. He ate a huge breakfast of hot cakes and bacon. Then he got into a rubberized suit, hung a gas mask on his chest, a radio transmitter on his back. His crew lowered him and boat through a manhole into a sewer main, paid...
...bait intended to lure moths away from clothing has been put on the market by a Wisconsin manufacturer. Called "Moth Wool," it consists of a package of blue woolen fabric, contains a chemical which kills the eggs laid in it, costs 95?. What the secret of its attraction is the maker refuses to reveal...