Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to decide between the Brothers Voight, Wisconsin voters were at least luckier than West Virginians. Wisconsin's Voights are easily distinguishable one from another, Charles's face being longer and plainer than handsome, smiling Edward's. West Virginia has two Sharp brothers in politics and they are identical twins. Summers H. Sharp, circuit judge at Marlinton, W. Va., often visits Charleston, the capital, where George Sharp is Secretary of State. When both are in town at once, people rub their eyes and Negroes get the "jim-jams." George Sharp has been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate...
...chicken.) They snared birds, netted insects, disinterred ground plants, culled orchids from their treeholds, pounced on small beasts. Rare among their catches was a variety of the Thomas rat, second of its kind ever caught. (The first is in the British Museum.) They also trapped five strange mice with sharp noses, beady eyes and long claws, more a digger than a gnawer type of creature. Altogether in their bales, sacks, boxes and cages the explorers brought back to the American Museum of Natural History, and last week were sorting, 1,260 birds, 350 mammals, innumerable plants...
Last week, however, it was revealed at London that Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), although an apostle of religious humility and the other cheek, once made a sharp retort to Bernard Shaw. The occasion was the submission by Mr. Shaw of several of his works for criticism to the Count. Tolstoy's letter in reply was released, in London, by erudite Mr. Aylmer Maude, now collecting and translating Tolstoyana...
...court of inquiry was composed of two august Rear Admirals (Jackson and Latimer) and a Captain and a Commander. Three distinct controversies-two of them within the Navy itself-raged in Washington so soon as their ponderings were published. So sharp were these controversies that Secretary Wilbur hastily ordered the court to reconsider the whole case and report anew...
...horned toad is not a toad, nor a frog. It is a lizard, a reptile, which through the ages has developed a broad, squat, warty body. It looks like a batrachian, save for its short, sharp tail. Horned toads run; they do not hop. They breathe by means of lungs, not through the skin. Frogs and regular toads can breathe through the skin. Horned toads (i.e. lizards) are of a higher form of life than are batrachians...