Word: veined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pull of the human interest story, the homely philosophical anecdote, the hushed heart throb. Having mastered his technique he proceeded to turn out He Went Away for a While and The Beginning of a Mortal. Now appears The Second House from the Corner, written in the same whimsical, speculative vein, with the same familiar snatches from the cracker barrel of homespun philosophy. Some of the fragments are pretty stale and moldy. Author Miller writes about himself after the manner of a daily columnist. Now he has built himself a house. He serves up 34 disconnected pieces about the new edifice...
...Mencken-Nathan Smart Set. He doesn't want those sophisticated tales cropping up now. If they were reprinted, his name would carry them into thousands of American homes, where it is a parental maxim that a Terhune book is fit for the children to read. Then the Smart Set vein would crop out?and that would be the last of the Terhune books in that household. He prefers to remain an Apostle of the Obvious and to know the joy of a wide and appreciative audience. And then too, Mr. Terhune enjoys his great prosperity...
...hears failure, or is killed by accident, an ambulance rushes his corpse to Sklifassovsky Institute for Urgent Aid where one of Surgeon Sergius Judin's aides quickly straps the body to a see-saw table, tilts it head down, drains the blood through a tap in the jugular vein. A small quantity of blood is set aside for laboratory study while the rest, treated with potassium citrate, goes into cold storage. Surgeon Judin, who perfected the storage of blood in wholesale quantities and arranged for the gathering of donor corpses, has revived moribund patients with blood stored as long...
...never chooses a monosyllable when a polysyllable will do. To him lobbyists are "obscene harpies." Fellow-Senators settle back for a quarter-hour's solid amusement when he strikes such a forensic vein as inspired his essay on the Democratic Donkey: "He is a braying compendium of stately dignity, stanch endurance, fortitude and patience. ... In our quadrennial Presidential campaigns there is more music in his raucous hee-haw than in the midnight minstrelsy of a nightingale. The donkey is a serio-comic philosopher, whose stamina and stoicism conquered the wilderness . . . a sure-footed creature of epicurean taste and gargantuan appetite...
...handful of Indians kept themselves warm smashing rocks. In quest of the precious, bluish-white metal called tin, they found only dull reddish dirt. The Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer's clerk, was growing rich...