Word: lice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pains, a granny lays a whetted axe beside a plowshare under the bed. The moon's phases are watched and calculated for everything from corn-planting to paring finger nails. Good manners are the highest plantation criterion: it is bad manners to dislike soap and water, to have lice or warts, to horselaugh right in somebody's face, to have sooty feet. Never was a book more bubbling with conversation. Joy and sorrow, large matters and small are discussed with that vast volubility of people whose social life is instinctive, unintellectual. On and on the voices flow, never...
...ache he will write to his Congressman to put through a bill creating a staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt." For the same reason that he fought the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, he opposed the McNarv-Haugen farm relief bill. Senator Reed's other Jeffersonian axiom is that the U. S. should not meddle in the affairs of Europe...
Where I come from, and all Southern Ohio, Fords are called "road lice." Now, if a "louse" is not a "bug," I wish that someone would kindly tell me what...
...Tibetans' fear of "the hairy men," malignant creatures who they believe once lurked high up on Everest, descending at times on the villages to wreak havoc, steal women and yaks, slaughter men; or whether the lamas, who are so humane that they will not molest lice and other creatures that take refuge on their bodies, could not bear to have any more human lives endangered and sacrificed on that gaunt tooth of Asia that white men are so perplexingly anxious to ascend. On the third and last expedition, which came within 800 feet of the peak, two men were lost...
Dogs. The "love me love my dog" attitude toward house dogs that are treated like human being was deplored by Dr. Minas Joannides of Minneapolis, who charged this intimate companion of man with spreading tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and smallpox; fleas, lice, ticks, worms and many another danger...