Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Body of the House. As head of the House, Speaker Byrns is discomfited only by the fact that he is expected to rule that body. At White House conferences he is often urged by Vice President Garner to use his power, to make "the boys" toe the mark, but there is not even a rambunctious Congressman whom Speaker Byrns has it in his heart to offend by being sternly autocratic. "We'll take care of that all right," he says pacifically. "Don't worry about that...
...Berlin, but the mildness of Sir John's protest after Herr Hitler re-established conscription in defiance of the Versailles Treaty (TIME, March 25) was notice enough to the Realmleader that Britain would not join France, Russia and Italy in any harsh, concerted effort to make him toe dotted lines on which Germany has signed. Last week in Berlin the French Ambassador was received with studied discourtesy by German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath when he called to protest. On a similar errand the Italian Ambassador was received with the deference Il Duce demands, gets. Considering that words...
Shrewdest aspect of the Libman treatment is his attention to the gall bladder, Gall bladder troubles affect the heart through sympathetic nerves. They also lead to gout. The heart can become as gouty as the big toe and can be as thoroughly cleared of gout by adequate attention to the gall bladder...
...little man flashes in to kick him again, harder. This time the ogre drops to the floor roaring pitifully. The crowd cheers its delight as the little man dives on top of him, pulls him up, slaps him down, jumps on him, and finally settles down to a toe hold. The ogre rolls his eyes, beats the canvas with his fists, tries to crawl to the ropes...
Pronouncing them male, Sir Bernard scraped the legs, analyzed the scrapings. "Peroxide," he observed. "Evidently used to whiten the flesh." Traces were also found of a depilatory. But it was the bones of the toes and insteps which interested Sherlock Spilsbury most. "Toe bones abnormally cramped." he said. "Insteps abnormally arched, as if deformed from wearing women's high-heeled shoes. Um, most curious...