Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their defects, especially of eyes and teeth, better than do the other groups. Hardest of hearing are the younger professional men. The older professionals rate well among oldsters. Nervousness troubles 8% of professionals, 4.5% of farmers. Farmers are freest from defects of tonsils, nose and throat, and from chronic skin diseases. Heart disease occurs more among businessmen than among the others. The pulses most often appear rapid or irregular. More businessmen than farmers use patent medicines. But artisans doctor themselves most...
...this disease named for him to derangements of the suprarenal glands. Victims of Addison's disease (men are more often afflicted than women) are almost always between 20 and 40. They feel weak all over; their stomachs are irritable; their blood pressure is low; and, most notably, their skin deepens in color. They usually die during a fainting spell. The notable pigmentation is deceptive. Many another condition causes similar discoloring: pregnancy, constipation, cancer, chronic stomach ulcers, abdominal growths, pernicious anemia. Affection, most often tuberculosis, of the suprarenal glands, is the cause of Addison's disease. The glands...
...perfectly true that a knowledge of American History and a legal education are decided assets to the politician, but a thick skin is even more valuable. A profession such as this which is tainted by the tactics of its less honorable members requires a certain imperviousness to misconceptions and in-appreciation. To be enrolled in any of the political parties makes strange bedfellows, whom the aspiring young candidate must accept or give the appearance of accepting, without reserve...
...have loudly branded such accusations as a "pack of lies" the day after they were made. A Calvin Coolidge would never have given them the dignity of his attention. But President Hoover is no Roosevelt with a brazen power to shout down the other fellow, no Coolidge with a skin time-toughened to public criticism. Three aspects of the Kelley charges made them especially obnoxious to Mr. Hoover: 1) they dealt with Oil, that horrid substance which so blackened the Harding Administration; 2) they appeared in the World, of all newspapers the one whose good or bad opinions can touch...
Texas has Strap Buckner, who found nobody could stand up to his fist. He enjoyed knocking people down, finally got a bit beyond himself and took on the Devil. After that encounter all he could say was: "Skin for skin, skin for skin...