Word: lepere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other end of the scale of argument, were the states' rights champions, who said flatly that the Senate had no Constitutional right to reject a duly elected Senator? be he a moron, a crook, a leper or anything else. Said Senator Bingham of Connecticut, a Republican: "The Senate has no divine right to keep itself 'holy and unspotted from the world.' It was created by the people of the United States to do for them certain things which they could not do so well themselves. To choose their representatives was not one of them. . . . Is the Senate empowered...
...heart or from the rayless ceiling overhead makes little difference in the long run. He went out into the frost; presently he was joined by a wealthy citizen named Bernard of Quintaville and a canon from a neighboring church named Peter. These three built themselves a hut adjoining the leper hospital. Lepers he had loathed unspeakably. But perfect love had cast out loathing: it was on the road from Apulia. He jumped from his horse and embraced a leper. "He receives," said a Cardinal, "those whom God himself will not receive. ..." So he lived in hunger among rocks, trees, beasts...
...Gabriele's retreat* on the shores of Lago di Garda is a residence of such sumptuous luxuriance as to stagger confirmed sybarites. When the poet who shattered Duse's heart reclines upon the velvet coverings of his fantastic bed, a painting of himself as a leper leers down at him in a manner which he is said to find "exquisite." When the firebrand who seized Fiume strides out upon his lawn, the dreadnaught Puglia, placed there high and dry by the grateful Italian Government, affords him a milieu in which to pace the quarter deck of his extravagant...
...though still in his twenties has scoured the globe's face from London to holy Lasa, was in time to authenticate a newspaper report of a Negro who stood barefoot on red-hot iron with apparent comfort. Dr. McGovern suggested that the Negro might have been an unsuspected leper but at the same time told of having joined in personally on a Shinto ceremony in Japan, where he thrice walked across a bed of blazing coals, to the great detriment of his clothes but without injury to his bare feet which were rubbed with salt...
...James W. McKane, veteran missionary physician from Siam; Dr. H. C. de Souza-Arujo, Brazilian leper specialist; Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic Laboratories at Washington, also addressed the demi-tasses. Their discourse was authoritative, technical, optimistic. They knew that their fellow guests, gentlemen who like them had ministered in dim jungles and remote frontiers to living bodies half liquified by ghastly corruption, were not easily put off their diet by good meat, good talk...