Word: leeched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly 2,000 years leeches have been used in phlebotomy. As late as 100 years ago leech gathering was a major rural occupation in Europe, but nowadays among physicians the speech is in bad repute. Nonetheless, in Manhattan last week Reporter A. J. Liebling of the World-Telegram interviewed one Bernhard Berkitz who for 35 years has made his living as a leech-dealer...
...Said he: "See what a nice leech. See how quick it takes. . . . The domestic leech sticks, but it does not absorb. The best leeches come from Germany and Sweden. During the War we could not get German leeches. I imported some Greek leeches, and they were very good too, but somehow I could not feel at home with them. . . . The leech is an epicure. If he is not hungry you put a little sugar water on the skin to coax him. To make him let go you put salt water. . . . He is also a social barometer. If Prohibition...
Pastmaster at exorcising goatish emanations from rural England's maids, meadows, men and mud, Author Powys sticks to his increasingly familiar incantation like a leech. As in other of his books, in Unclay there are the simple-minded clergyman whom nothing shocks, the dovelike virgin, the innocent poor farmer, the rich farmer like a boar. Only one newcomer is in the book, Last Comer Death...
...Received the resignation of Pennsylvania's J. Russell Leech, who was appointed by President Hoover to be a member of the Board of Tax Appeals...
...taking meticulous care against cuts and bruises Professor Thomas F. Sanford of the University of California has lived for 65 years. Like the Princes of Spain, he is a hemophiliac. His blood does not clot. Death has been for him a leech against which he has ever been on guard. Last week he lowered his guard for the sake of a mortally risky operation on his bladder and prostate. Coincidentally he began to have his entire blood system washed out with blood from twelve one-time students of his English classes. Eventually he hopes-if Death does not parry precautions...