Word: spina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Miss Broadway, Shirley is a high-spirited orphan always on the point of breaking into a tap routine or a Walter Bullock-Harold Spina song. She is adopted by a lackadaisical Broadway character (Edward Ellis), who runs a seedy hotel for vaudeville actors. After a while, the exuberance of Jimmy Durante and his five-man orchestra get on the nerves of the lady next door (Edna May Oliver). She owns the hotel, but when she tries to evict the vaudevillians she runs up against Shirley. Shirley captivates the old lady by singing Swing Me an Old Fashioned Song...
...former pupils of old Don Benedetto, most had gone with the wind of the times. Only one, Pietro Spina, refused to conform. When, weary of exile, he came back to Italy to see how the land lay. he found his former comrades scattered, missing or "reformed." A friendly peasant hid Spina in a shed, an old schoolmate had just enough courage to get him a disguise, send him off to a mountain village. Garbed as Don Paolo, a priest on vacation. Spina slowly got his bearings again, gradually began to sound out the political temper of his neighbors. Against...
...Spina's yearning for action became so violent that he went out at night chalking up subversive messages: "Down with government soup! Long live liberty!" Only result was that he had to run for his life. At book's end he was still running. Author Silone holds out little hope that he will not be caught...
...South. Stormy Maine and Vermont presented five times as many cleft palates as did bland Arkansas and Arizona. Genital defects were excessively high in the Northwest. Testicular defects formed a track from Montana to Iowa, hypospadias from Montana to Illinois. Hermaphrodites were more common in the Northwest. Spina bifida, on the other hand, was apparently high at both the northeastern and the northwestern extremes of the U. S and in addition, formed a track from Nebraska through Missouri and Tennessee to South Carolina...
Northern children with incompleted spines usually die young. In the climatically calm South they are apt to grow up, a condition which explains the high rate of spina bifida in balmy South Carolina...