Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spitting image" (TIME, Aug. 30. p. 11), which is meaningless, should have been "spit an' image." You doubtless have interpreted what you have heard "spittin' image," and, being punctilious, have supplied the g. You may supply the d for an', too, if you wish. Saliva, like blood, breath, etc., has been regarded, by many peoples of the world, as having supernatural potency, and, of course, intimately associated with one's being. In the folk-mythology of both hemispheres, saliva is often associated with conception. It is reported that among the Gypsies a woman who wishes...
...turreted medieval city. Most spectacular: 140,000 brown-uniformed Storm Troopers lined up column upon column on the Zeppelin Meadow. Flanked along the sides of the floodlit arena crammed 250,000 spectators. With trumpets blaring, the Fuhrer mounted the platform, stood with chin cutting the atmosphere as three blood-red rivers, crimson party banners carried by brown-massed troops, moved toward him. Flames leaped from cressets atop the corners of the stadium, 250 army searchlights pierced 3.000 feet in the sky to make a gleaming square of light...
...confused with the old patent medicine SSS ("Swift's Sure Specific") which used to be sold as a "blood purifier" (i.e., syphilis cure), and now is sold as a tonic...
...synthetic, hormone-like substance to be administered hypodermically. It inhibits the production of ova, without which no woman can conceive. In this respect it differs from spermatoxin, an extract of spermatozoa, which renders a woman transiently infertile when injected into her arm like a vaccine. As long as her blood is stimulated by spermatoxin no spermatozoa can affect her and she cannot have babies. Not all women will endure injections of spermatoxin, because it may render them allergic and put them in a class with victims of hives...
...went mad, knocked her down, started gnawing at her. Bootsie was too infirm to be of any help. But Miss Parker's shrieks aroused the neighbors, who called the police. When a patrolman broke into the house he found Miss Parker lying unconscious in a pool of blood, Chino tearing the flesh off her arms. The patrolman knocked Chino off with a chair. Chino rushed at him, snarling. The patrolman pinioned him beneath the chair and shot two bullets into him. Then the officer called an ambulance and Miss Parker was hurried off to a hospital. After doctors...