Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first thing Dr. Griffin does when he is out of sight is to wrap his body, which remains solid, in garb as unprepossessing as he can find. Well aware that when he removes the bindings from his face or the trousers from his legs, there will be nothing there, he takes pleasure in frightening the host of a village inn by doing so. Presently he kills a policeman and then, intoxicated by the certainty that he can commit crimes with no possibility of being detected, he wrecks a train, kills another young doctor whom he has forced...
...testified in the Food Code hearing that the temporary blanket code had forced them to add 12,000 employes, the yearly payroll by $10,000,000. . . Woolworth last week was reported it was beginning to hire smarter, wage-worthy salesgirls who would actually sell, not simply make change, wrap packages...
...stranger joined the line. After an hour's shuffling forward, he was given a sticky handful of some noisome stuff. He asked the surly clerk for change, was told there was no change in the store. He patiently asked for wrapping paper. The clerk jeered, "Afraid you'll get your hands soiled?" The stranger asked, "Where is the manager?" The clerk handed him a piece of newspaper to wrap his handful, told him the manager was "upstairs somewhere." Upstairs he went, gingerly hold- ing his handful. Clerks sent him from department to department for more than an hour...
...shared her son's political successes only from a distance, never obtruding herself into his spotlight. The Hyde Park estate is legally hers until her death but she has made it a home and a refuge for her boy. She still worries about his health, warns him to wrap up when going out in the cold, busies herself about his small comforts. When he returned to Manhattan from Miami fortnight ago, it was his mother who first greeted him on the outside steps of his house. A great believer in heredity and "good blood" Mother Roosevelt justly feels that...
Park Superintendent W. E. Geiser concluded that a kingfisher must have carried the catfish aloft. Not even a climbing perch (Anabas scandens) could have shinnied up 40 ft. A small, dark green fish with dusky bands, the climbing perch inhabits Far Eastern estuaries and rivers. It can wrap its pectoral fins around grass stems, drag itself long distances. Why it wants to go overland, no one knows...