Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barrel-chested, sweating, heavy-handed Adolph Seibert...
...they could prove that fraud entered into the making of the lease. Between the time the Senate quit investigating and the time the Cheyenne trial began, these two eminent lawyers picked up one significantly strong scent. They discovered that a U. S. combine had sold 33,333,333 barrels of oil to a Canadian oil company for $1.50 per barrel, that the Canadian company had resold the oil to another U. S. Company for $1.75 per barrel. Then, mysteriously, a man representing the Canadian company drew out $300,000 worth of Liberty Bonds, of which $230,000 worth somehow came...
...orphans bereft through it, the 10,000,000 refugees who fled destitute before it," the passionate Baptist orator asseverated that "at any moment some wild-eyed militarist across the Pacific ... or some hysterical session of the Senate here may drop a spark into that powder barrel" which would disastrously involve "our sons, our daughters, our business, our security...
...winter and the lack of sunlight, or are not present at all because fruits and greens have not been eaten, the bones are pinched with poverty. To make up for this, they swagger and falsely swell, while the sufferer falls off in flesh. The head becomes bulky; the barrel of the ribs warped; the sternum projects. Fever, sweating, temper, sensitiveness? that is rickets. In former days, a famed antidote, a preventative, was known. That stood and stands still on many a pantry shelf, is administered in a great spoon after every meal, a green-glooming fluid in a sticky bottle?...
...masters, hearing that he proposed to be a civil engineer: "Well, Doyle, you may be an engineer, but I don't think you will ever be a civil one." He was perpetually in scrapes, liked to fight. Later, at Edinburgh University, studying medicine, he met a bearded barrel of a man, original of "Professor Challenger" in The Lost World. There, also, was Joseph Bell, surgeon, whose specialty was diagnosis through observation and deduction. Bell was the original Sherlock Holmes...