Word: pith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a U. S. bootlegger's airplane skidded to a halt in Nassau Harbor last week, a pale, pockmarked, frightened Cuban, Gerardo Machado y Morales, instantly demanded police protection. Nassau's big, black, pith-helmeted police ordinarily carry no firearms, but now rifles were issued to some of them and a guard posted at the Royal Victoria Hotel...
...reception by the Army band at the Union Station. The bowlegged little Prince with curly whiskers first called at the White House wearing a two-foot shako of lion's mane. A large crowd awaiting General Italo Balbo cheered him by mistake. Day later, wearing a pith helmet, he returned to lunch with the President. His soft Amharic had to be interpreted. In the Blue Room before the meal he flipped open a box and drew forth as royal presents for the President two lion skins and a photograph of his father-in-law in a gold frame. (President...
This thesis seems vindicated by the resignation of the defeated Chiang, and the termination of the menace which his unbridled hosts held for foreign interests in Manchuria. There is much pith in the remark that Japan might also have been literal about Chinese treaties if an anarchic China had been two thousand miles from her frontiers, and if her interests were as small as Great Britain's much touted Persian oil wells. But it is clear that no adult judgment of Japan's conduct can be made until the charges that she bribed the revolting Chinese governments are either substantiated...
...Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).* When England in 1925 returned to the international gold standard only a few economists, generally conceded to be crazy, bewailed the fact. Most famous of these few was Cassandra Keynes, as he calls himself, as his opponents love to call him. Writing with such style and pith that even runners may read and understand, he has here collected "the croakings of twelve years." Most of his earnest persuasions, that persuaded few people at the time, have turned out to be dismal prophecies. Specimen (1921): "The unwillingness of American investors to buy European bonds is based on common...
...Affection, most often tuberculosis, of the suprarenal glands, is the cause of Addison's disease. The glands are two small bodies, shaped like cocked hats and one perched at the top of each kidney. Each gland is made up of a cortex or rind and a medulla or pith. The two are inseparably united, more so than the core and pulp of an apple. Medulla and cortex have different embryonic origins. The medulla originally buds off from the same cells which provide the sympathetic nervous system. The cortex begins in the same cells whence the urogenital system derives. During...