Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Buffalo workmen poking around in the garage of the county jail came upon some dusty timbers. After they were examined the present sheriff of Erie County offered them to the Buffalo Historical Society as an historic relic: the gallows on which the 22nd and 24th President of the U. S. had hanged two men. The timbers were all there, but the rope was missing...
...years ago and thus a likely prospect for champion U. S. oldster, was later set down by many a scientist as an "intrusion"-a polite word which experts apply to material that does not belong to the geological layer in which it is found. This year, WPA workmen digging a storm drain for Ballona Creek near Los Angeles found a human skull. Dr. Aberdeen Orlando Bowden, head of the University of Southern California's anthropology department, pronounced it that of a 70-year-old woman with a long, narrow head. Dr. Bowden stated that the skull could not possibly...
...drunkenly concocts a ruse by which he in duces Nils to believe that his good wife is a prostitute. Nils kills himself and his wife (off stage) and Andy loses his job and goes crazy. There are times when this flimsy tale comes to a dead stop and the workmen loll about on their crags ex changing rowdy talk and banter, much like the urchins of Dead End grown older and transported 63 floors up. "What's the purtiest thing in the world?" asks Andy...
With the appearance of workmen and supplies on the ground Monday, it was revealed that usage has finally been found for the flat rooftop of Leverett House's dining hall...
...glaring electric light atop a rail-guarded manhole with a red "Danger" sign broke the dark stillness of the Yard in front of Boylston Hall last night as electric company workmen toiled late to install a new giant transformer...