Word: hare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little fling at adventure. Imagine what a treasure hunt will mean to those unfortunate souls whose joie de vivre has been crushed by a ceaseless dreary round of charity balls and benefit teas. The aureole of romance which encircles this hunt--a recherché combination of fox hunting and "Hare and Hounds" beginning with a Hunt Breakfast at the Plaza, followed by a wild taxi chase through the city for clues which eventually lead to a hidden treasure )"finding's keepings"), and concluding in a Hunt Tea Dance--the aureole of romance, let it be repeated, will serve to illumine...
...manner of the killing, the meat of that killing is treife, unclean; it taints whatever it touches, and it were better for a man to cut off his right hand than to eat of it. Certain beasts are of themselves unclean?the pig, the camel and the hare; all carnivorous beasts, all birds of prey, all creeping things. Others, when slaughtered according to the law of Shehitah, are kosher...
...indulges in politics as a member of the Women's Democratic Union. Some of her co-members include Mrs. John Blair, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. James W. Gerard, Mrs. Norman H. Davis, Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, Mrs. Montgomery Hare, Mrs. David F. Houston, Mrs. Pierre Jay, Miss Amey Aldrich, and Mrs. Frank L. Polk. These are the very aristocracy of politics. Most of them have slid into the game because of wealth or husbands. These are quite a different set from the gang of women who go out and get votes and bring them home to the Party...
...high blood pressure are hereditary. In 1922, a physician reported a family in which ten of the twelve members had high blood pressure, and in another instance nine members in one family died of hemorrhage of the brain due to high blood pressure. Now Doctors J. P. O'Hare, W. G. Walker and M. C. Vickers of Boston present figures for the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital of that city which indicate that in a large majority of cases the heredity factor may be demonstrated as important. The figures demonstrate conclusively, they believe, that a family history of heart, kidney...
...Secretary Hughes were said to have known the details of it before Mr. Lodge presented the plan to the Senate. They would probably act on it, however, if the resolution were approved by the Senate. But approval is decidedly dubious, and it is not impossible, as many people hare taken pains to point out, that the plan is purely a pre-election move by Mr. Lodge...