Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious that only amputation of his leg would save his life. Bellevue's Social Service Department scraped up $165 to buy (wholesale) an artificial leg, and eventually Luyhx hobbled off. Soon he was back, drunk again, with a new break in the amputated leg, above the knee-stump. The artificial leg was missing. Luyhx at first claimed he had lost it, later admitted he had hocked it for $15, to buy whiskey...
...Army would have to call only one registrant out of 23. But the floor managers could see this was not enough. The Senate had seized at a straw -the Overton-Russell amendment giving the President a club over recalcitrant defense industries-which would permit Senators to argue on the stump that they were drafting wealth as well as men. The House wanted a straw...
...could not quite believe it. A revolutionary smell clung to him like the faint, unmistakable odor of the cell and the cellar. It showed in his quack-doctor's beard and stump-speaker's hair, in his thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in his quick, alert, high-shouldered walk as he strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever...
...child remained in this cramped position for four weeks while finger and toe grew together, supplied by a common circulation. Then the doctors severed the remaining flesh that bound the toe to the foot, carefully covered the stump with skin. The toe-finger was protected with a leather jacket until completely healed...
FIELDS FOR PRESIDENT-W. C. Fields - Dodd, Meod ($1.50). Cob-nosed W. C. Fields, with his marvelous sense of timing, here throws his hat in the Presidential ring and leaps on the stump, in one motion. He does not indulge much or effectively in the Will Rogers type of political ribbing; instead, he maunders on about a vaudeville seal, a cornet rendition of The Whistler and His Dog, drops useful hints on bodybuilding, the care of babies. Even without the Fields voice and the Fields mannerisms, the Fields pen shows a delicate sense of U. S. language. The book contains...