Word: devour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter Mrs. Cora Britten of Elliott. Md. became convinced that she had cancer of the breast. A friend told her about Dr. Harlow R. Street, who conducts a "cancer sanatorium" at his Washington home, has a "secret salve" to devour cancer. Against her physician-husband's advice Mrs. Britten went to the Chevy Chase, Md. home of Dr. Street's partner, Dr. Nathan Sherwood Ferris, for treatment. She spent nine weeks there, two days in a Baltimore hospital before she died...
...radical, conspirator, firebrand, socialist, fake-madman and terrorist. This present Dictator Stalin had carefully gathered from the files of the Imperial Russian Secret Police When he received the documents on his farm near Vilna last week Dictator Pilsudski growled gruff delight, shut himself up in his study to devour item after item...
...another gypsy (TIME, Jan. 25). For him the ocean and all water, he says, is hell. He spent his six days aboard the Aquitania this autumn lying in his cabin in a pair of red silk pyjamas, trembling lest he should die and be thrown overboard for fish to devour. Ashore he soon becomes the soul of assurance again. He wears grey flannel shirts for formal and informal occasions, usually with a tie he has crocheted himself. But last winter in Washington he went to a reception at the Spanish Embassy in a flannel shirt and no tie. "There...
...another was upon it. The fishermen counted eight sharks. For 15 minutes unnoticed by the battling fish they watched while the water grew red about the boat. Then there was a lull and a moment later the swordfish appeared floating belly up on the surface. Before the sharks could devour it the fishermen drove them oft. hoisted what was left of the carcass into their boat. Minus head and tail it weighed nearly...
...horses of the Imperial Guard. Into their stables last week came two Imperial grooms carrying two baskets brightly bedecked with the Imperial colors. By curious Japanese signs they tried to explain to the horses that these were a gift from the Emperor. Then they watched the two horses appreciatively devour their eight pounds of Imperial carrots...