Word: hazarding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is one reason why more people are now dying of heart diseases, kidney diseases and cancer (characteristic maladies of middle age and senescence) than died a generation ago. Formerly people who would have had these ailments died young. But, in the case of heart diseases, the hazard of death has been actually increasing. Louis Israel Dublin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stressed this fact in the current Harper's. According to him. out of 100 ways of dying, a boy of ten now has 19 chances of dying eventually from heart diseases...
...Some of the Harvard men who come to see me are very amusing", chuckled Mr. Hazard, "They generally want something. One time a boy came in, with prominent New England ancestors and all that, and asked me point blank to introduce him to Miss Groody, the star in my show. Now, I couldn't do that. He was a perfect stranger, you know. But I told him that he might get some friends of hers, and suggested he try Captain Harrigan...
...conversation became pleasanter and Mr. Hazard, becoming curious, asked a question. "What paper is this going to come out in?" he inquired. "I hope it's not-well you know I have an aversion to appearing in any funny papers...
...Hazard," he said, "we would like to have you dine with...
...Hazard, we would like it very much to dine with...