Word: clara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago such an anomaly was born on a scrabbly farm near Pittsburgh to a poor Pennsylvania Dutch family named Schreckengost. The Schreckengosts named the child Clara and brought her up as a girl. After Clara was 10, she ceased to grow. Her features acquired a slanting cast and she gave no physiological evidence of oncoming womanhood...
Last summer an agent of the Pittsburgh Humane Society found Clara lumbering about the farm. The agent took Clara to Pittsburgh's Western Pennsylvania Hospital to see if anything could be done about her hermaphroditism...
...other years, to determine Clara's sex, a surgeon would have been obliged to cut her open and a histologist would have had to study microscopic snips of her internal organs. Now, however, all that was necessary was a test of her blood and urine on virgin rats and spayed mice. If Clara was a true female, her specimens would contain glandular secretions called hormones which would put the rodents into rut. The test was made; Clara was a boy. Thereupon surgeons started a series of major operations to release the latent seeds of manhood. Last week it was announced...
...Milwaukee, Clara Rick decided that the safest place to keep her ten $10 bills overnight was pinned to her nightgown. When she awoke next morning she found that a nimble-finger had taken three, left seven...
...Jacob Astor 3rd, 21, son of Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte; and Ellen Tuck French, 18, daughter of Boston Insurance Agent Francis Ormond French and Mrs. Livingston French of Manhattan: in Newport, R. I. Notably present were Mrs. Fiermonte, Mr. William K. Dick, her second husband. Nazi Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. Clara Smith, Negro matron of the Newport Casino. Notably absent were Mr. Astor's halfbrother. Vincent Astor; his onetime Fiancee Eileen Gillespie; his stepfather. Prizefighter Fiermonte...