Word: leaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was the year the Brotherhood was founded. An Erie Railroad fireman was killed in a train wreck, and a railroading friend named Joshua Leach set about taking up a collection for the widow and the children. Leach was so distressed about the plight of the widow, left without funds, that he decided to form a firemen's life insurance association. The eleven original members called themselves Deer Park Lodge No. 1, took oaths and made up secret passwords. From that small beginning grew the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (engineman is an old-fashioned word for fireman...
Only recently have doctors been able to slow down Wilson's disease with drugs to leach copper out of the body, and a low-copper diet (no liver, mushrooms, nuts or oysters). How much better it would be, say Drs. Irmin Sternlieb and I. Herbert Scheinberg of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to spot the inherited defect before illness has time to develop...
Both Medical and Law School faculty have been active in their support of McCormack. From the Law School come Professors Clark Byse, W. Barton Leach and Henry M. Hart. Jr. The Medical School McCormack supporters include Professors, Ives Hendrick, Leroy D. Vandam, Richard Warren, and Benjamin Castleman...
Cary Grant, of course, is Archibald Alexander Leach ("My name will give you an idea what kind of family I came from"), son of a textile worker in provincial Britain. When Archie was twelve, his father deserted his mother, a tall and commanding woman who for a time went to pieces under the shock of rejection. Little Archie, essentially homeless, turned to show business and ran away to join a troupe of acrobats...
...pickle-changed his name to Fredric March. Frederick Austerlitz was just too hobnailed a surname to weight the light soles of Fred Astaire. Gary Grant, of course, would have been unstoppable with any name from Pinky Fauntleroy to Adolf Hitler-even, for that matter, with his own name: Archie Leach...