Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third-grade teachers of Harlem's drab, grey brick P.S. 119 took their children into the school yard for recess. One teacher played the piano while five little circles of Negro girls danced gaily. But nine-year-old Margaret Patton had a skin rash and sat alone on a bench. She was a well-behaved youngster - so well-behaved that she sometimes tattled to the teachers about other girls...
Ernest Hemingway, sporting a lush bush, was nightclub-sitting with Fellow Author John Steinbeck, who has just started to become a beaver, when (reported New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons) they were asked: "Why the beards?" Steinbeck: "Obviously, an affectation." Hemingway: "Obviously, to cover a rash...
...Instructions. Just before he left, he made a short speech to all the officers of the division. It was such a speech, as the one in which he was quoted as saying: "This stuff about tremendous losses [in the invasion] is tommyrot." But that comment was no gush of rash optimism; in context it was a simple statement of Bradley's faith in the fighting qualities of U.S. infantrymen...
Toxoplasmosis is a "new" disease, though African rodents and people have probably suffered from it since germs began. It often kills its victims soon after the first appearance of symptoms-rash, fever, lung infection, blindness and, in children, convulsions. But there was good news about toxoplasmosis in last week's Journal of the A.M.A.: Harvard's Drs. David Weinman and Robert Berne have proved that sulfapyridine cures the disease in 95 out of 100 mice even in very late stages of the disease...
There has been plenty of talk against antiSemitism. Last week one group of Protestant ministers decided to do something about it. The occasion was a rash of minor outrages against Jews in Manhattan's Washington Heights section, similar to those in Boston (TIME, Nov. 1) and in other U.S. cities...