Word: slave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this the Vagabond observes minutely, glorying in his Zeus-like superiority to the moiling creatures below. He yawns luxuriously and considers his plans for the day. It is 9.15, and a grinning slave of Morpheus has just begun to sprint furiously, for he and his fellows have Divisionals this morning. For the Vagabond, Readin Period begins...
...Sultan passed on to visit his princesses and favorites in their private apartments. If one of their slave girls chanced to please him, tradition required that he should seem to notice nothing-indeed it would have been highly improper to show any sign of a new attachment in the presence of a reigning favorite. Every mood had to be controlled in the harem. The chief slave girl was the go-between and she informed the lucky girl of the honor that awaited her. ... A new career was opened to her. ... In other ways, too, it was a momentous time. Only...
...Modesty has always been supposed to add zest to a wooer's conquest . . . but the Sultan was too mighty to fight for his prize. . . . The slave maiden was allowed a scanty choice of fascinating devices. However beautiful she might be, the three silent obeisances that she made as she entered the bridal chamber could not bewitch the master's senses by their eloquence- for the most part he did not notice them, for he was already...
Ever since the Portuguese, Dutch and British first started raiding the jungles of West Africa for slaves to work their new colonies, the hideous gods and little demons of primitive Africa have been turning up as curios in the homelands of the traders. Not until shortly after the turn of the Century, when the founders of modern art loudly proclaimed their independence, was the artistic merit of these mementos of the slave trade generally appreciated. Young modernists like Jacob Epstein, Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, were profoundly affected by West African sculpture. Today an African mask or two is as necessary...
...scoffed at total excision of the thyroid. The theory is that the thyroid drives the heart more than the heart can stand and that without the thyroid's slave-driving the heart can take its own time and method of pumping blood through the coronary arteries. Thyroidectomy does relieve drive on the heart and does prevent angina. But it does not cure the source of trouble and, except for lifelong dosing with the thyroid hormone, makes an idiot of the coronary patient...