Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real and lasting harm" with his "sham grandeurs" than "any other individual that ever wrote." Today, few Americans suspect how many thousands of native place names are directly or indirectly Sir Walter's. "Poetic" names built around glen, dale, vale, hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove and Scarsdale] in his life, he was nevertheless very...
...recent rash of sunshine in Beantown has caused such stalwarts as "Iron Phil" Masquelette and "Terrible Ted" Marchese to shed their lining in favor of the garb of a horsehider and to play a little ball. Some of us, you see, are a little more athletic than others. Good weather brought with it a few aches and pains in the form of early morn exercises, courtesy of the athletic department, and dismayed Messrs. Sinberg and Lifschultz of "left side first" notoriety. Combining a fanatical desire and his bull strength, Kevin "the Bull" O'Donnell makes mad tracks daily...
German measles (rubella), as most adults know it, is a pipsqueak disease which produces only a rash and a mild fever. But if pregnant women catch it, it can give their unborn babies heart disease, cataracts, bad teeth or even make them deaf mutes or idiots. Many such children die in the first few weeks of life. These frightening facts, which have just begun to worry baby doctors, were thoroughly aired last week by Manhattan's Dr. Philip M. Stimson, speaking before the New York Academy of Medicine...
Copy desks rose to the occasion with a rash of rhymes on the Big Three meeting. The Knoxville News-Sentinel...
...Long Island College of Medicine. In the current American Journal of Diseases of Children he reports the case of a mother with 1) upswept hair and 2)a baby which had had eczema for all but the first two of its ten months of life. Observing that the rash was confined to those parts of the baby which would normally touch its mother's hair, he had a sudden hunch. A test on a clear patch of the baby's skin proved he was right: the child was allergic to the hair lacquer its mother used to keep...