Word: freak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further down the Winooski valley, at Waterbury, Vt., martial law was declared. Many a flood freak had occurred. The 300 inmates of an insane asylum escaped. ... A large house with all lights lit floated by at the first flood midnight.*... A crippled farmer nearly starved in his garret. . . . Hearing that Bolton, downstream village, needed food, a Waterbury undertaker furnished coffins to float a raft, which reached Bolton. . . . A rendering (glue, etc.) factory in the Winooski Valley was offered 3,000 carcasses of drowned dairy cows. . . . Excavators were imperiled by a store of dynamite that floated out of a construction camp...
...become definitely a fashion requires time and the scrutiny of not-a-few human beings. The items that follow are presented with the idea that they are news to a large majority of TIME-subscribers. And the TIME-subscriber who detects a genuine new "fashion" (as distinct from a "freak") and reports it to this department, will be rewarded with knowledge that he has performed a petty public service...
...water had been visible on the surface. Many hours later a northward moving hurricane did bang that part of the Atlantic into a colossal lather, but what manner of hurricane forerunner would travel invisibly beneath the surface? A convulsive bottom current? A ponderous flotilla of mad leviathans? A freak pelagic tide-rip seething in the depths as masses of the Atlantic changed position...
...Department of Agriculture issued a public warning: "In view of the wide spread of literature and advice of so-called 'diet experts' it seems desirable to warn people against adopting the dietary recommendations of those without real scientific standing in the community. Some of the advocates of freak diets are sincere, but are, themselves, deluded. Others are fakers. ... If the deductions of many food faddists, accepted as facts, were really operative, it would be difficult to explain how the human race has survived...
...hate, give and steal, swear and sing with inflections nearly as much their own as Mr. Tully's. If the real Moss-Haired girl, half Swedish, quarter Indian and quarter Irish, did not actually wash her hair in stale beer and herbs, or if she was not the freak of virtue that Mr. Tully has made her, there was surely enough virtue and stale beer about her to make exaggeration more permissible than understatement. If the blood and thunder seem as pat as they are plentiful in "Hey Rube!" the riot story, that is only because Mr. Tully...