Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contoritionist's soul as he leaps, jumps, hurls himself before Bebe's car--to die? Of course not. Contoritionists never die when automobiles hit them. They just confort. So she saved the fifty thousand dollars and the Boston lawyer quel homme! So droll, and with what a black eye...
Everyone knows the hideous aspects of erysipelas. From a tiny red blotch at the nose or on the cheek near an eye, an angry red spreads out into a wide, fiery stain. The skin tingles. It burns. When the stain reaches the spongy cheek or lip tissues, these swell into a horrible, puffy, burning mass. Sometimes the disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations...
...learn the hidden cause directly. So with a sterilized lancet the doctor, emergency surgeon now, pricked the baby's pink scalp. He pricked again. He heard a minute clink; he felt something hard against his lancet blade. He looked, and there gleaming up at him like a reptilian eye glittered in his incision the end of a steel darning needle...
...gaudy Rome (Manhattan). He now recognizes that he was marked for high destiny when President Grant helped him shinny a post to see a horse race; when a supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels for Oscar Hammerstein and an aluminum fan for Mrs. Astor...
...beneath a cruel sun. Christ hangs dead upon his cross and the name of Mary is a sterile myth in dusty shrines. By night, among the peons, the old gods stir, the Aztec gods. Quetzalcoatl, the bird-snake, is come again from "the cave which is called the Dark Eye, behind the sun," where the waters rise and the winds are borne on the waters of the afterlife. Through hia priests he brings a new manhood and womanhood, to be entered by night at hushed circles where a drum is beaten and the men sit naked to the waist chanting...