Word: harelips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no nerve connection between mother and fetus, hence no known avenue on which the mother's shocks may travel to deform the child. Some deformities (webbed feet, cleft palate, harelip) result from arrested development in the second month of fetal existence, caused by disease or by physical injury to the mother's abdomen; others (birthmarks, extra fingers or toes) result from excessive development, may be hereditary. Zenith of prenatal impression stories is reached by one of paternal shock. A Mr. K.'s first wife had both legs cut off by a train, died...
...20th anniversary of his magazine. His real name is Morgan von Roorbach Shepard. He says he is 55, looks about ten years older, is small, wiry, baldish. Contrary to strangely persistent legends (besides one that he is a woman) he is neither crippled nor blind, nor has he a harelip. His professional name dates back to his childhood on a Maryland plantation. A bird house in the backyard was occupied by a colony of martins, identified by his mother in her story telling as John, Joan, Robin, Alice (et al.) Martin...
...fell dead in front of the hunter's home. A porcupine named Albino spiked apples with its quills, carried them to the cider mill. A hen after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting on it, turned it on, drank. A Maltese cat, with a harelip, whistled "Yankee Doodle." A cold cow gave ice cream. Jim. Pete and Dick, trout, were fed New-Year's dinner with a silver spoon. Copycat Mortison. Early this year it seemed Winsted's animals might be spreading when from Waterbury, Conn, were reported some chicks which had hatched...