Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human eye reveals what foods are best for the body and that the color of the eyes is due to auto-intoxication and not to pigmentation. I changed the eyes of one woman from brown to gray within five months. I could not have done it if the color of the eye had been caused by pigmentation, as pigmentation cannot be altered. All babies are born with a bluish colored eye, and when they turn green, gray, brown, hazel or some other color, it is not an accident, but indicates an inherited or acquired toxic condition...
...fellows. But this will not suffice, in our judgment, unless as soon as possible after the "houses" have been established and the first few allotments made the faculty allows the students themselves every reasonable freedom in choosing to which groups they will adhere. Nothing so strongly persuades a human being to "brighten the corner" where he is as the fact that he picked it. --New York Herald-Tribune...
...period both in style and material." At once he recognized the English 99 1-2 formula, and knew that his intuition had been right. Beckoning his comrades to him, he seized upon the writer of the betraying words. Great was the surprise when he found it was not a human being but a mechanical man, a perfected robot. The head came off in his hands. Examining it closely, he found it contained a replaceable cylinder on which was written "English 99 1-2". There was a complicated mechanism by which impressions on the roll were transferred to the fingers...
...know hundreds of ladies of the aristocracy and upper classes who believe that they have accomplished a super-human feat when they have presented their husbands with one son, as if they had performed a galling duty imposed by law to the exclusive benefit...
...told me gleefully of the monster turkey somebody had sent for Thanksgiving. How she kept dishing it up in various guises for a week. She laughed till her false teeth-if you ever beheld 'em!-fell down. Every time I think of convents, it renews my faith in human laughter. FATHER WILL WHALEN Old Jesuit Mission, Orrtanna, Pa. Father Whalen recently wrote a short story about a mediocre actress, popular in small towns. It was labeled "Twinkle, Little Star" and appeared in the New York Daily News (tabloid).-ED. Marching Yorkers