Word: leeched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newton Galleries was exhibited a series or black & white pencil drawings and colored caricatures, signed for the most part H. B. To knowing London Victorians H. B. stood for John Doyle, an artist that modern critics have learned to classify with his more famed contemporaries, George Cruikshank and John Leech. His son Richard became the famed Punch illustrator. Every week at least 200,000 people look with lacklustre eyes on "Dicky" Doyle's best-known drawing-the cover for Punch, designed in 1844. John Doyle's little grandson grew up to be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
...Althouse '34, J.L. Brodrich '35, H.S. Derrickson '35, W.M. Evans '35, H.B. Garrignes '34, R.H. Heindel '33, J.S. Lang '35, E.B. Lee, Jr. '34, C.R. Leech '34, W.R. Lessig, Jr. '34, John Maler '34, H.S. Miller '35, S.A. Polik '34, E.H. Rigg '34, R.W. Turner ;33, A.D. Willow '33, G.D. Zimmerinan...
...religious editor. He wrote a dozen samples, sent them around for criticism, told the editors to be "ruthless." Aware that religious writers are often verbose, given to clichéd sectarianism and stale prettiness, most of the editors were pleased to the point of enthusiasm. Editor Edward T. Leech of the Pittsburgh Press, "strongly impressed," could find no criticism to make. Editor Bingay predicted that Dr. Newton would gain an even bigger following in his field than Walter Lippmann (New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Daily News, et al.) in politics...
...leech is a form of worm which lives on blood, can absorb as much as three or four times its body weight. Around its mouth is a sucker surrounded by a network of strong muscles. It makes a triangular incision in its victim, clamps on the sucker, pumps out the blood the while secreting a ferment which prevents the blood from coagulating. In tropical countries leeches attack men and beasts; in Western Asia, Southern Europe, North Africa they are imbibed in drinking water, cause hemorrhages, nosebleed, headache, asphyxia. They are hermaphrodites. In the U. S. they are retailed in some...
...Though a hermaphrodite like the leech (see above), the snail nevertheless goes courting. He carries a dartlike structure (spiculum amoris) which is discharged during the preliminary stages of mating, stimulating his companion to autoerotic activity...