Word: leper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rely on "any whiskey expert in the U. S."; for TIME'S own eminent consultant pronounces that Irish whiskies, being heavier, are less delicate. Question of taste.-ED. Danner Christmas Sirs: . . . Nowhere is the true spirit of Christmas more clearly shown than among the 3,000,000 lepers of the world-sick, homeless, many of them blind, and crippled as well. At 170 lonely leper outposts around this old world there are men and women and little children asking ''Will there be any Christmas this year?" Not the kind of Christmas that means extra comforts and luxuries...
Trypan-blue has been used to kill the spindly, boring animalcules (trypanosomes) which cause sleeping sickness. It is also useful to kill the microbes of malaria. In the Federated Malay States, at the Sungei Buloh leper settlement Dr. Gordon A. Ryrie discovered that the blue trypan dye attacked the fatty bacilli present in leprosy and tuberculosis (the forms of the diseases are related). Other investigators confirmed Dr. Ryrie's work, among them cautious Dr. Heiser...
Contributors to the American Mission to Lepers, which now supports 184 leproseries, own toy pig banks in which they deposit their odd coins. The idea developed 20 years ago when Wilbur Chapman, Kansas farm boy, bought a piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch...
...times as a butler to various Manhattan families. Author of some 40 best-selling novels and devotional works, Toyohiko Kagawa earns $10,000 a year of which he spends $40 a month for himself and gives the rest to his work. He runs three social settlements, aids a leper colony, maintains a research bureau, heads a great organization of consumers', producers' and credit cooperatives. Many a Japanese, including himself, wears a "Kagawa suit" which costs $3 (winter model) or $1.35 (summer). Kagawa founded the Farmer-Peasant Party, has sat in the Japanese Diet as its only outspoken radical...
...rather than an addlepate, are the best strokes in the portrait. When Foster wakes up with a hangover and finds a girl in his apartment, he says: "Women are all soul and men are all heels." Another one comes when he has replaced pajamas with a suit: "The leper has changed his spats...