Word: lick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand members of the American Society for Testing Materials (A.S.T.M.) went to French Lick, Ind., last week for their 25th annual convention. There, in haunts usually filled by politicians clandestinely trading their influences, testers frankly presented 80 reports and papers on various metals, cements, ceramics, paints, oils, petroleum products, timber, coal, coke, rubber, textiles...
Last spring the superintendent of the Humane Society of New York visited the hospital. In Dr. Shelling's laboratory he found a mongrel dog (mostly fox terrier) with her muzzle strapped shut with adhesive tape. The dog's name was Nellie. She could not eat, drink or lick her wounds. That was cruelty, decided the humane society agent who forthwith had Experimenter Shelling arrested. David Belais, president of the humane society, raged; altered his will to cut off the Jewish Hospital from a legacy. His wife, Diana Belais, is president of the Anti-Vivisection Society of New York...
...past, said. "You've heard what started the World War, haven't you? Here is what the Kaisor says about it: 'One day Theodore Roosevelt called on me, and after we bad joked for a while, he jovially slapped me on the back and said that I could lick the world; and I was foolish enough to try.' Who knows what the next war will be about...
...holy ritual. He is happiest when he has an acolyte; someone who wants to try dope-to watch the slow fire of rot filter through the novice's veins. He keeps the papers his powders come in. When he has no more dope he can lick the grains of dust clinging to the paper. Many Negroes are addicts; they took to it because it once was hard for them to get liquor. It relieves their spiritual tensions. The South uses more morphin than the North...
...their own way. Advertising religion is at best an effort to further spiritual progress by materialistic mediums--and this latest attempt is unfortunately symbolical of the entire movement which, in spite of its being headed by the sincerest of men, is little more than an apology for a lick of real religious zeal on the part of the general public...