Word: sores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snake meat was good for rheumatism, otter's liver for tuberculosis. For sore eyes, a fine salve could be made from bears' gall bladders. If dubious of such tried-&-true remedies, the ailing one shuffled down the street to get a heavenly diagnosis from an astrologer, or spiritual advice from one of the local fortune tellers. There was not much point, said the Chinese, in a foreign doctor coming to Changsha to open a foreign-style hospital...
...acquired considerable horse sense herself. Samples: 1) when the swelling wouldn't leave War Date's sore knee in California this winter, she massaged it out with hands that had massaged wrinkles out of many a woman's face; 2) when she saw one of her horses limping, she decided it was because his shoe didn't fit-she ordered the shoe pulled off, proved to be right, and changed blacksmiths. What impressed people around the stable most favorably, besides the ability of her stable to win, was that she obviously loved horses. She never bets...
...Papa Edward Marvin Head, 26, passed around the cigars, strode proudly out to pitch for the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers. It was his first game in two years, and his arm was a bit sore (he was hurt by the recoil of an antitank gun last summer...
Even before Matthew Arnold brooded thus on Dover Beach in 1867, many Christians had been oppressed by a belief that Christianity was in a perhaps fatal decline, ailing within and sore beset from without. Indeed, the Dim View has been and is almost a cliché in press and pulpit...
...Democratic National Chairman was feeling rotten. Bob Hannegan recently had a lot of teeth pulled. Now he was convalescing in the Arizona Biltmore, in Phoenix, with tender gums and a sore throat. The telephone rang, and added to his sufferings a headache from Washington...