Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have his picture taken, politely smashing the cameras of photographers who tried it. Where chivalry is rare, he made no secret of his feeling that men should not swear when ladies were present. For strength, John Montague was marvelous. When a friend had a blowout, he held the rear end of the car up while he changed the tire. John Montague could drink whiskey by the quart but no one ever saw him drunk. Finally, he was a prodigious golfer...
...dynamite in that famous editorial was the little word, "sex." Two months later Mr. Bok soothed his sensitive readers with: "The forbidden word in this magazine will remain forbidden until conditions of absolute necessity force it to become otherwise." Mr. Bok permitted sex to rear its ugly head again in January 1909 when he published a full-page article by blind Helen Keller giving medical statistics of the results of syphilis and gonorrhea, but not mentioning either disease by name...
...planes aboard (instead of 72 as first announced) and an escort of four destroyers, sped out of San Diego at forced draft, stopped in Hawaii to refuel, arrived in the search area early this week. If the Lexington's great fleet of planes could not find the lost flyers. Rear Admiral Orin G. Murfin, coordinator of the search, planned to abandon it. Meanwhile the chance of finding the flyers alive, according to the consensus of searchers, was already down to one in a million...
SYPHILIS SIVE MORBUS HUMANUS- Charles S. Butler, M. D., Rear Admiral (M.C.) S. Navy-Science Press (Lancaster...
...Rear-seat riding in an automobile gives me the fidgets. And while I was voicing my opinions to a companion in the rear seat of an auto the other night, we collided with another car ahead of us-at a rate of about 35 m.p.h. ... I saw what was coming and braced myself. My companion in the back seat had not been watching, and he bounced forward and banged his nose on the back of the front seat. The passenger alongside the driver bumped his forehead on the windshield. Then blood and all the usual details. An ordinary aviation safety...