Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dirigible must always remain expensive; to make the gas cells tight, gold beater's skin must be used, made of the blind gut of oxen; and a herd of 50,000 is needed to supply the material for one airship; a dirig- ible hangar must be a monstrous affair, big enough to house a cathe- dral...
...staunch red skin who stares with uplifted arm across Mt. Auburn Street from his concrete pedestal in front of Arthur's English Smoke Shop is one of the last survivors of the tribe of wooden Indians that formerly guarded the entrance of cigar stores throughout the United States...
Once upon a time in the early period of the stone age, there were two men who were about to run a race, with a beautiful leopard-skin-clothed girl as prize for the winner, and death,--instant and unwavering,--for the loser. As the language in those days was not quite as it is now, the man to the right was called X; and the man to the left was Y. The race began with Y slightly ahead but with X pounding steadily onward. At the half mile mark, he passed, retained his lead until...
...Story. A mighty man, this Richard Hogarth, farmer, with brown skin, round brow, moles on his cheek, lips "negroid in their thick pout," eyes brown, bloodshot, "imperially large...
...gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential to the vital development of nearly every part of the human organism. "Hands and feet are broad, pudgy and floppy; the fingers stiff, square and spadelike; the toes spread apart, like a duck's, by the solid skin. . . . Even the intelligence common to the higher animals is wanting. The cretins of the 'human plant' kind, as they have been nicknamed, will not recognize mother nor father nor any person about them, nor even a person from an object. . . . Hunger and thirst they manifest by grunts and inarticulate sounds...