Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that a human body?" asked Byron. "Why, it's more like the carcass of a sheep." Shelley's brains, "cupped in the broken cranium," seethed and boiled as in a cauldron for a long time. Byron felt sick, went for a swim. Driving home, Byron and Leigh Hunt felt a "hysterical gaiety . . . drank in the carriage . . . sang and shouted like men possessed...
Shocked by Shelley's death, bored by Teresa Guiccioli, worn out by living with the Leigh Hunts (whose very modern children Byron called a "draal of Hottentots") Byron decided to go to Greece. Author Quennell does not believe that he really wanted to go. "The idea of death might leave him calm; he shuddered . . . at the prospect of moving house." To Lord and Lady Blessington who saw him just before he left, he made farewell presents, demanded "a corresponding gage d'amitie." He made "some sarcastic observation on his nervousness." He had wept "and made no effort...
...stood on the deck and watched the whole show," mused Leigh Hoadley, one of the men in that ambulance corps. "There wasn't much we could do about it. The torpedo nicked our bow . . . but do you know, we were very fortunate. It didn...
...that torpedo had not turned out to be a dud, Leigh Hoadley would not today be a professor of Biology, expert in the development of frog, fish and chicken eggs, and Master of Leverett House...
...early as 1908, while he was still in grammar school. His father died at that time and the boy became very good friends with his back door neighbor, H. H. Wilder, who was Professor of Zoology at Smith College. During these years, while other boys were playing marbles, young Leigh would prepare skeletons for the professor, who was doing some special work on the physiognomy of the American Indian. Later, in high school, he worked on brain sections. Then on his elderly friend's advice, Hoadley went to the University of Michigan, where he became a laboratory assistant...