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Word: streetsâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1924-1924
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...towns and villages have not their broken ragpicker, their derelict mower of lawns or sweeper of streets??? belly lurched out in a flabby bag, neck narrow and bowed to an ugly vertebrate knuckle, legs short and wobbly, feet flat and weak, head huge and misshapen, with drooling mouth, bleary, vacant eye, putty nose and unkempt thatch of hair. He is the "village idiot," the Tom o' Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cretins* | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

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