Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall talk of such fat figures ringing in their ears, the Senate Finance Committeemen retired into their committeeroom with the House tax bill, started to remake it, supposedly in secret. Every few minutes, however, some loose-tongued Senator stuck out his head to whisper to the Press that another chunk had been taken out of the measure. First inheritance taxes went out bodily. Then a new schedule of estate taxes higher than those in force was ordered written. Next the stiff excess profits tax proposed by the House was pared down. Personal income tax exemptions were cut from...
Meanwhile the Athens newsorgan Anexartitos reported former King "Gorgeous" Georgios II so enraged at Premier Tsaldaris that he was conferring secretly with the leader of Greece's lately suppressed revolution, foxy old Eleutherios Venizelos, who has just lost a chunk of his fat wife's fat fortune in the crash of Paris' Travelers Bank. The onetime...
...cuts through the flesh at the hip, lays bare the joint. Then he carefully breaks the part of the pelvic bone which forms the upper edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk of pelvis acts like a claw to hold the hip bone within its socket. The new grip is just tight enough to let the leg swing...
...tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base for expensive perfumes. No such delusion had small, apple-cheeked Roderick Palmer Crandall when he found a chunk of waxy, yellowish stuff near his grandfather's home at Islesboro. To him it was just something which bobbed up with a satisfying swoosh when he pushed it under water. Soon the shorewise eye of Roderick's carpenter-father Hezekiah fell upon it. He sent specimens...
...November 1917, a hard, dark chunk of a man walked round & round a team of 34 dray horses at the foot of 132nd St., Manhattan, feeding each & every horse a sugar lump. On a tremendous trailer attached to the team was a submarine which had just been hoisted out of the Hudson River. The man turned and walked down the street, the 34 horses following him. Thus, while thousands jam-packed the sidewalks, did Truckman Henry Herbermann haul the German U-boat C-5 to Central Park to be used as a speaker's rostrum for the second Liberty...