Word: caving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dull world as you escape from your little corner and look around hurriedly. A colony of women in one part of London have solved their living problem by becoming professional rat catchers, in spite of a woman's ancient horror of rats, dating from days when the cave woman came home to find that cave rats had eaten her baby. They catch the rats alive, 25,000 of them a month, and sell them to doctors and others for vivisection for eight cents each...
UTAH: Chief Old Posey (who led a recent revolt of the Piute Indians, which was quelled) was discovered dead in a cave where he had crawled, wounded...
...suggest that it is speed which we want-a thing to be obtained only by the combination of "form" and "guts". "Form" without "guts" is pretty, but foolish. "Guts" without "form" is brutal stupidity, the sort of thing that makes the last mile utterly impossible; it is an anachronism-"cave-man stuff" is a bit out of date in rowing...
...deformed female skull, discovered in a Missouri cave, has been received by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the United States National Museum. The shape was probably produced by bandaging the infant head, which was a common practice among the Aymaras and other South American Indian tribes. Only two such skulls had previously been found in North America...
...appetite for the human hunt. Thousands of plain people, reading the lurid three-page account in the Hearst press, can imagine themselves either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "angel" and man of mystery, John Mitchell; the dark and debonnaire South American cave man, Guimares; the tragic mother, Mrs. Keenan; the crafty sleuths hot on the scent of the blackmailing murderer; the poor, humiliated wife in Palm Beach; or even the colored maid, Billie Bradford, discreet and loyal confidant of the white beauty and her "important" lover...