Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patient lay in her poor dwelling. The tapping of the sacculi and the bleeding caused considerable soiling of the abdominal contents, and water was used freely from a pitcher to cleanse the abdominal viscera. After all was over, we sent across the street for the steelyards belonging to a butcher in the Kensington market [Philadelphia]. The whole multilocular cystic mass with the accumulated fluids tipped the scales at 132 pounds. As soon as the weighing was completed, a nurse dumped everything down a privy well. The tub weighed 16 pounds, leaving a weight of 116 pounds...
...Author. James Hanley, latest White Hope of the intelligentsia, was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the same age as his hero. 13. In 1916 he joined the army, returning to the sea after the War. Onetime stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, post man. Author Hanley knows the proletariat of which he writes. His writing induces nausea in some readers?Hugh Walpole leading the hue & cry with a public shriek of horror?but causes in others a vehement banner-waving. Among the banner men are Thomas Edward Shaw (Col. Lawrence), Richard Aldington, John Cowper Powys. Laboriously punting upstream...
...Manhattan, an extortionist was sent to the penitentiary for 50 years, guilty of abducting for ransom an East Side butcher...
Spectators. Admiral Byrd said he was looking for Norwegian ski-runners for his next polar expedition. Mayor James John Walker of New York said he was "recuperating." Mrs. Alfred Smith congratulated Mrs. Shea, wife of the town butcher whose son won the 500 & 1,500-meter skating championships...
...modern era." Greek athletes, before their Olympic games, swore to compete fairly and to the best of their abilities. Modern Olympic athletes also have an oath, to recite which the U. S. committee selected Jack Shea, 21-year-old Dartmouth sophomore, speedskater and son of a Lake Placid butcher. While the other athletes raised their right hands in assent, Skater Shea solemnly assured 5.000 spectators: "We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honor...