Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among the gifts received by the President were innumerable turkeys; a 22-pound, home-cured ham from Governor Gore of West Virginia; more than a dozen canes, which the President does not use; cigars by the hundreds, some of which he will smoke; cigar holders, intended to displace the paper holders which he uses...
...irate Negress and her baggage being turned over to an officer at the station. The train rolled away and the passengers drowsed again. Mrs. Brookings spent the night in the county jail and was fined $500 for violation of Florida's "Jim Crow" law, which forbids Negroes to use railroad accommodations set apart for whites. Now, as everyone knows, Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, shrewd lawyers, are friends of all races; in fact, in 1925, they defended the source of all races at the famed "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. Mr. Darrow has saved the lives...
...type. Machiavelli was suspected by simple souls of having been the devil himself, and the adjective "Machiavellian" was introduced into English with the connotation "diabolic." Machiavellian maxims: 1) "It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong and to make use of it or not according to necessity." 2) "Men are so simple . . . that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived." 3) "It is unnecessary for a prince to have . . . good qualities . . . but it is very necessary [for him] to appear to have...
...eyes, binds the bowels, relieves pain and fills the brain with languor and strange faces. There is opium in paregoric (baby-soother), in Dover's powder (cold remedy), and in many another household drug, drugs that seem kind. Opium gum looks like black paste. Addicts who smoke it use a small lamp, like a dentist's lamp, over which they give the dark pellet a slow roasting; then they put it in the tiny bowl of a long pipe. Their dreams are gentle. Opium does not waste tissues so quickly as does alcohol...
...this, and also required that all dogs imported into the country be quarantined for six months. It had not a single case of rabies in dogs or any other animals from 1902 until the World War when aviators carried their pets above and over quarantine. Another preventive is the use of prophylactic serum for animals, manufactured by most of the biological chemical houses. The Louisville authorities would like either or both of these preventives applied to their district. But they are blocked, seemingly, by a general public apathy...