Word: lick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fenway "lrish Lick", with Thomas Meighan...
...Once on the outskirts of a town I came upon a dead woman. By her side sat her husband, who apparently was shortly to follow her. He held a baby - their baby-whimpering, naked, starved and cold. He also was crying. And he began to lick his child all over. I feared canabalism, but, no, he was simply trying to keep it warm...
...cafes, in the smoky corners of third-string night clubs, till their keys are yellow, and their tone is as hard as peroxided hair. Gershwin's fingers found a curious music in them. He made it hump along with a twang and a shuffle, hunch its. shoulders and lick its lips. Diners applauded. "What's the name of that tune, honey?" asked a lady of Gershwin one night...
...Kentucky, diggers from the University of Kentucky unearthed 21 Indian skeletons, sitting up in their graves amid shell and bone implements and ornaments unlike any ever before found. The graves, discovered two feet deep in cultivated fields, were in an area of Mason County, near May's Lick, where mastodon bones were once found...
...discovered to vary in intensity by the astronomer Fabricus in 1596. It is a deep red color and fluctuates in periods of eleven months -is sometimes 200 times brighter at maximum than at minimum light. Mira has a companion star very close to it, which was discovered at Lick Observatory...