Word: epsom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons prefer local anesthesia. The patient can be propped up in bed the day after his operation, sit in a chair after a week, be well in three weeks. Dangers against which the convalescent must guard include pneumonia, hiccoughing, gas on the stomach. Epsom salt is poison to the convalescent...
...brief hold-up occurred over hexamethylenetetramine (derivative of formaldehyde and ammonia used in medicine and vulcanized rubber) when Generalissimo Smoot could not pronounce it. Ink rates fell suddenly with a great black splash over the regulars. Epsom salts collapsed feebly under the jabbing attack of the Coalition...
...black cat prowled about a London shop. Its side brushed softly against a small silver statue of Cragadour, Lord Astor's favorite for the Epsom Derby. The statue trembled, fell. Next day, all England heard of the incident. The next night the statue was stolen. Throughout England filtered a whispered nervous doubt...
...exodus from the Town started early. Epsom, in Surrey, is not far from London. Rolls Royces and big red buses carts charabancs, here and there a tallyho, moved like gastropoda along the road. Airplanes with radio telephones circled over the procession, tried to direct traffic. On the downs squatted gypsies although they were not supposed to be there. For a shilling they sold pieces of paper with the name of the winner written thereon. Bookies with checked vests ran around the stand which towers at the end of the famed horseshoe shaped track Gentlemen with grey toppers peered through binoculars...
...Epsom Derby is England's most famed though of course not always its most exciting race. The Derby excitement obtains not from the actual running of the race but from the world-wide lottery betting upon it. At the end of a Derby race it is generally discovered that some very obscure person has suddenly won a considerable fortune at very little risk. Such knowledge encourages people to bet on the following Derby. Thus Derby sweepstakes perennially increase in number and size...