Word: offal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zinc beds in the U. S. There a score of "TriState" towns house 100,000 miners and their families. Typical is Zincville in Ottawa County, Okla. Its battered shacks, pieced together out of tar paper and packing cases, nestle close to glittering mountains of "chat," or quartz dust, the "offal of the mines."On blustery days, wind whips and swirls the stinging quartz dust through the streets and into the houses. Constant inhalation of quartz dust causes silicosis...
...packed picture of which he suspects "there are some pages over which people will stop and wonder." It was a time of growing violence, growing paradox, growing economic change and bewilderment: "of [Northern] abolitionists hanged, shot, stabbed, mutilated, disfigured facially by vitriol, their home doorways painted with human offal ... of the 260,000 free Negroes of the South owning property valued at $25,000,000, one of them being the wealthiest landowner in Jefferson County, Va. ... of Southern planters and merchants being $200,000,000 in debt to the North and chiefly to the money controllers of New York City...
...Chicago soap-maker, he's a dangerous Communist. To a Cambridge townie, he's dirt and offal and something to beat up in a dark alley. To a society matron, he's completely eligible and quite charming. To another drunk at the bar, he's a good fellow...
...Prince and the Pauper starts on the day in 1537 when boy infants are born simultaneously to Henry the VIII in Windsor Palace and to Pickpocket John Canty in Offal Court. Young Prince Edward thrives at the court, under the tutelage of the Duke of Norfolk (Henry Stephenson). Young Tom Canty thrives in the gutter, with Latin lessons from Father Andrew and whackings from his father (Barton MacLane). Prowling about London one day, Tom crawls under a bench outside the castle to take a nap. The Captain of the Guard hauls him out and is giving him a thrashing when...
...decade Dr. Baer pondered the coincidence. Medieval doctors, he knew, used to, apply maggots to festering sores, a gross, unlearned practice long abandoned. But maggots are scavengers of the offal they live in. Might it not be that the maggots in his War cases ate up the infected tissue debris, thus preventing blood poisoning? And might they not have secreted something which stimulated the growth of healthy tissue...