Word: blackleg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laborite John R. Clynes, generalissimo of the Labor party in the absence of onetime Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald in the U. S.: "I rise to protest that this bill would prevent workers on strike from doing anything to make their strike a success. . . . Why this Government solicitude for 'Blacklegs' ["Scabs"]? . . . This bill would make it illegal to even make faces at a 'Blackleg...
...once "tin-panning" began. Crowds of strikers, their wives, children surrounded the houses of miners who had returned to work, kept up hour after hour a din upon tin pans, kettles, pails, until the family of the absent "scab" or "blackleg" promised to do their utmost to dissuade him from work. Once the worker returned home, usually besmeared with mud balls and rotten fruit, the tinpanners not only resumed their din but nailed down the windows and tied shut the doors of "blackleg houses...
Anarchist ; bankrupt ; blackleg ; black-sheep ; brainstorm ; briber ; crook ; crooked ; damaged-goods chap ; destitute ; extreme poverty...
...eight years. Thanks to the obsolete training maintained by the General Medical Council, registered surgeons were unable to correct it. They did not pretend to. Their final verdict was, 'You must go to Barker.' But the General Medican Council said, 'If you go to that blackleg you shall howl for it, as we will ruin any man who dares administer an anesthetic.' And in fact the operation, which was completely successful, was performed without anesthetic, though I hasten to add that this was the effect of my wife's curiosity...
...registered medical gentlemen on the spot, they were unable to replace it for want of perfectly well known technique which every qualified surgeon should have at his fingers' ends. It took me ten days to get to Birmingham, where an American doctor of osteopathy, also classed as a blackleg by the General Medical Council, set me right after 75 minutes of skilled manipulation...