Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tremont: "Lady by Choice' and "The Human Side," Continuous...
Five days later two human legs were found under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station and Scotland Yard was off on a fresh mystery. The Waterloo legs, according to Sir Bernard Spilsbury, are male...
This younger child (see cut) crawled about the floor like a frog, and its poor little body was so deformed from lack of nourishment that it did not resemble a human being. Its mother had died of starvation when it was one year...
...From Vadnagar, India, north of Bombay, last week flashed exciting words. "Experts in anthropology" announced that they had found fossil remains of a pygmy man 15 in. tall, a pygmy cow 18 in. high. The Press earnestly began gathering learned speculations on this "cradleland of the human race." But when the backwash of inquiries engulfed the town of Vadnagar, local authorities called the story a hoax, either the work of a practical joker or, as the Associated Press found, "the result of an old Hindu superstition that spreading a false rumor sometimes aids toward solving a domestic problem...
This story of contemporary Sydney is not so much a novel as an interrelated series of portraits; the portraits are not so much human likenesses as translations into brilliant descriptive talk of different types of human problems. Her characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic proportions: Michael, the burnt-out veteran of 32; Baruch, the philosopher of the one-horse printshop; Catherine, the virgin in search of an angel; Chamberlain, the cheerfully hopeless incompetent businessman; Tom Withers, the intelligently rat-minded foreman. Only ordinary character in the book is Joseph, whose very ordinariness lights...