Word: droolings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rape and violent death. In the title story one of the characters amuses himself by cutting off dogs' tails, of which he keeps a large collection in a trunk. As a fitting accompaniment to these actions, most of the people in the book display the usual pathological symptoms: they drool, twitch, giggle, and gibber in the most authentic manner...
...epileptic uttering a loud shout and dropping like a log to the ground, face pale, eyes rolling, hands clenched, legs spread stiffly. After a few seconds, the epileptic's face goes dusky. He begins to jerk his arms, legs and body, roll his head, clamp his jaws, drool foam. Such an attack may last two or three minutes, after which the epileptic grows limp, breathes with a heavy rasp, drops into deep unconsciousness...
...myself 'caught' typhoid fever from a sick parishioner, although I carefully washed my hands immediately after administering to them the Holy Communion."-Rev. John Munday, Temple City, Calif. "Every priest knows that many people, particularly the elderly, have very active salivary glands and that they always drool into the cup; furthermore some men have long moustaches which dip into the wine- truly disgusting facts."-Rev. Dr. Clifton Macon, New Rochelle, N. Y. This week The Churchman quoted a layman who was shocked to find the common cup in use at a church school during a diphtheria epidemic...
...which ends by his choking her and knocking her down. Her hysterical screams bring a crowd. Unwilling to implicate her lover, she babbles that a Negro attacked her. Among the colored folk arrested for questioning is Lonnie. Unlike the other dejected crows in the lineup, big Lonnie refuses to drool servilely: "Yassuh, cap'n. . . . Nawssuh. cap'n. . . . Dat's right, cap'n. . . ." He has been helping a white labor organizer recruit a stevedores' union on the Stuyvesant Docks. He stubbornly stands for his rights, makes a bad impression at the police station...