Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tactful scholar. In the following manner he cheers both fundamentalists and evolutionists : "YOUR GRANDAD WAS EITHER A MAN OR A MONKEY-Take your choice-but if you write to the MAN give us the STREET and NUMBER, and if you write to the MONKEY, give us the TREE and LIMB." His title of "Doctor" is no nickname. He is a graduate of the medical school of the University of Tennessee. During the influenza epidemic, he left his postoffice and went to heal the sick...
...prohibition laws can be prosecuted in both State and Federal courts for the same offense without violating the clause of the Fifth Amendment-forbidding double jeopardy. This clause says: "Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life of limb." Justice Willis Van Devanter's opinion held that a person who manufactures intoxicating liquor "commits two distinct offenses, one against the United States and one against the State," and hence may be punished in both courts. His decision reaffirmed the doctrine laid down in 1922 in a similar State...
...after him. Long claws reached out, divested him of a rubber boot; he was almost at the top of the tree. The claws reached out again; his leg was bleeding, his courage broken, his strength gone. Death, clumsy and terrible, with red eyes, groped after him along a veering limb. And then came the thud of galloping hoofs below, a cavalcade, with rescue in every tossing neck, waited for Dave Irons below. While the frightened bear scrambled off to her cubs, Ranger Irons started in amazement at his rescuers, the cows, waiting for their salt...
...sons of the prophet are hardy and bold And quite unaccustomed to fear; But of all-the most reckless of life and of limb Was Abdul, the Bulbul Emir! . . . When they wanted a man to encourage the van Or to shout 'Attaboy!' in the rear, Or to storm a redoubt, They always sent out, For Abdul, the Bulbul Emir...
...opportunity was Mary's again to renew plot and counterplot for a political marriage. But, at last, she was madly in love. Her lover was the Earl of Bothwell, recently married and known to have been implicated in her husband's murder. He was broad of shoulder, stout of limb, shaggy, stern, a hawk-headed man. To yield to this passion was fatal; but she yielded, conniving in her own abduction to hasten the marriage. Sir James Melville puts it bluntly: "The queen could not but marry him, seeing that he had ravished...