Word: hangnail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last question on the preliminary questionnaire. "Are there any problems of a personal nature which you would like to discuss with a doctor? (they need not be discussed at this time)" read the form. On the inspiration of the moment, he scribbled "Severe depression. . .suicidal longings. . .homesickness. . . ruptured hangnail. . . galloping consumption. . . homicidal leanings. . ." It was a riot--or so Vag thought until he began to wonder how the examining doctor would react. Even if he was only joking, it sounded awfully peculiar. With embarrassment, he blackened over all his answers and wrote in a bold hand, "NONE AT ALL," hoping...
...toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar of skunk juice to use in stink bombs.) Described as a physical coward by those who have known him longest, Beck never suffered so much as a hangnail. But such was the shadow he cast through his goon squad, that the rank-and-file Teamster still thinks of him as "Big Dave...
...both fighters are obliged to undergo a thorough physical examination. With the health question such an important issue of the current presidential campaign, why shouldn't both presidential candidates give the public a report on their physical condition ? It is entirely possible that Adlai is suffering from a hangnail or fallen arches, unknown to the public. Just how healthy is Adlai anyhow? I, for one, would like to know...
Replete with hangnail character sketches and hangdog attitudes, Author Rawlings' revised Book of Job is a sententious smudge compared to her famed, finely drawn 1938 novel, The Yearling. "Writing is agony," Author Rawlings once confessed, but there was a time when her books didn't show...