Word: prick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Until a year ago, I would have been willing to endorse their statement," exclaimed Professor Gottwald Schwarz, University of Vienna's longtime radiologist. ". . . But accidentally I lately suffered a needle prick of the nail cuticle of my left index finger. This trifling injury gradually developed into an ulcer which today, after the lapse of one year, still does not show the least tendency toward healing." Day & night Professor Schwarz asks himself: "Have I a cancer? Should I have the finger...
...bound to accomplish this even at the expense of forcing the permanent discontinuation of the huge bonuses paid to industrialists. Any man who can take a million-dollar bonus while others are crying for jobs and for bread must be forced into decent generosity if his conscience does not prick him into...
...every first-hand reader of Ulysses there have been scores of second-hand gossipers. Censorship rather than sound criticism has spread its reputation throughout the Western world. What the man in the street has heard of Ulysses has made him prick up his ears. Usually his first question...
...people in Tropical Winter are vicious, hysterical, more than half-crazed by pleasure-laden lives. Since Deatfrdebunked Ivar Kreuger, no one supposes that matches are made in heaven, but bourgeois opinion still holds that Palm Beach and romance go hand in hand. Author Hergesheimer does a good best to prick this bubble. Some of the stories...
Thomas William Lament, No. 2 Morgan partner, speaking before the Academy of Political Science in Manhattan last week, caused bankers throughout the land to prick up their ears when he recommended Federal Reserve membership for every last commercial bank in the country. Declared Banker Lament...