Word: harelips
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...both to a genetic and to an environmental factor, I shall disregard the genetic phase. . .In the Northeast we find a high cleft-palate rate. We deal with a population that has been domiciled under the present climatic conditions for perhaps some 200 years or more. . . . Cleft palate and harelip are not fatal and do not prevent reproduction. Familiar strains present in the population would continue and the climatic instability would, if anything, enhance the frequency of such defects...
...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...
...were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell you a red-hot one" . . . "Now down south they say" . . . "The one about the man with a harelip and the woman with St. Vitus' dance. . . ." It is true that among the 3,000 owners or executives of dry-goods stores who checked into the hotel there were several who did not know how to be regular fellows, and even a few individuals who thought they could attend...