Word: runt
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Last week an old man died, another old man retired, a law was held constitutional. Behind these scattered but related facts was a story of greed and gold, of political intrigue and the fulfillment of an old vow. One character in the tale was a North Carolina runt, now vanished into a historical footnote; another was a great American jurist who liked yellow-backed French novels and claiity in the law, and who had an eye both for the exact word and for a well-turned ankle...
Brookfield Dumb-Bell, named for the lemon dumbbell-shaped splotch on his side, was a runt. But he was a champion's son and when his turn came he, too, won the top U. S. bird dog championship, the National Field Trials on the Hobart Ames plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. One autumn when he had grown old and too slow for quail, the little setter's master took him away from his familiar brush and stubble to the thick pines of Minnesota to hunt grouse. Out of his master's sight one grey afternoon...
Some of the bunch were consciously ambitious, felt themselves capable of big things; all of them were determined to do better for themselves than their parents had. Their tastes soon began to differentiate them. Runt Plotkin, toughest of the crowd, embarrassed them by his actions with girls, which spoke louder than their lewd chatter. He drifted off to become a precocious hack-driver. First of the bunch to go further than the universally-allowed petting were Estelle and Sol, the chesty athlete. That went on till they got a scare, then they broke...
...swart Italian who was born Angelo Siciliano 44 years ago and brought to Brooklyn by his parents at 11, Mr. Atlas by his own advertised account was originally a puny "no-account runt," a "sickly, skinny, run-down weakling weighing only 97 pounds." His inspiration came on a visit to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, where he was so impressed by the plaster-cast Greek heroes that he thenceforth devoted his life to his body. His present title dates from the early 19203 when Publisher Bernarr Macfadden was running beautiful body contests. Charles Atlas won so regularly that...
...Runt is pigeon English for Ront, name of a German breed...