Word: itches
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...latter, alone, would stir a possessive itch. The plates are so handsome as to prove that, even in reproduction, fine drawings can give a tactile pleasure in addition to their esthetic worth. De Tolnay's definition of drawing includes some forms of watercolor work, and the whole range of tools -swan and goose quill, silverpoint, chalk, charcoal, pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece...
...months without breaking the skin). Then a cluster of similar spots, which grow larger, form blotches some times as big or bigger than a 50? piece. On white people the blotches are pink, red or brown; on dark-skinned people they are purple, blue or black. Some blotches itch. After a year or more the dark spots begin to lose their color, and the patient's skin becomes a chiaroscuro of bleached blotches and normal pigmentation. Among Dr. Leon y Blanco's volunteers were three men with syphilis. They all got pinta, proving that the two diseases...
...regular binges four or five times a year, some are just funny: e.g., one time Dr. Ellsworth, thinking a drunk was out cold, was telephoning for a nurse when the patient snatched the phone and shouted: "Send one with long fingernails. I have a bad case of the itch...
...hunt for "the biggest specimens." For twelve super-lice, the club paid one mark. On Sunday morning each member lined up for inspection holding a prize louse between finger and thumb. As the Kommandoführer marched down the ranks, members saluted smartly, thereby snapping the "live dose of itch" in his direction. After endless practice on an old overcoat, the prisoners could hit the Kommandoführer "below the belt" once in three tries...
...that of the Indian untouchables: about 20% of these children had head lice, especially the young ones and the older girls who never comb their hair in order to preserve permanent waves. More than a quarter of Sheffield's school children had skin diseases (most common: the itch). Many children had never been fed a hot meal, never used forks or spoons. Bed-wetting was common. Since many of the children had never seen a bathroom, they used the hearth or any convenient corner of a room instead...