Word: warts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Roosevelt: "My brother, Kermit, lost his left thumb when, last week, a Manhattan surgeon amputated it to rid him of a persistent infection. The infection was apparently the result of radium treatment which my brother underwent six years ago to remove from his left thumb a wart...
Slender, getting bald; a wart on the left side of the nose. Protruding ears, sallow coloring. That is Isaac Shapiro, famed swindler, seven times convicted thief, now at large. That is also William Feit, honest salesman. Arraigned, Salesman Feit stood in court. Bondsmen, victims, detectives, policemen, identified him as Swindler Shapiro. He said he was innocent. Even his lawyer did not believe him. He faced life sentence. Honest Feit looked evilly around the court, whispered something to his lawyer, one Emmanuel Celler. Lawyer Celler, realizing that his client was sure to be convicted, put a fingerprint expert on the stand...
...enough that they had been rolled and tossed in a creaking steel ark over thousands of watery miles. But now they were suspicious characters. They had been sequestered until Government veterinarians could be sure they did not harbor anthrax bacteria. Nearby were 15 African antelopes and four African wart hogs, similarly sequestered, suspect...
Ralph Pulitzer, editor* of the New York World (Democratic Manhattan daily): "I returned to the U. S. with my brother Herbert from a five-months' hunting trip in Africa, where I shot two lions, a lioness, a kudu (spiral-horned ante- lope), a wart hog, a water buffalo, a rhinoceros, many another quad- ruped and some birds. My shots killed all these creatures except the rhinoceros, whose neck my bullet entered, lacerating the beast to charging fury. My guide checked it with an accurate shot. I told newsgatherers that I had become so fond of African sport I would...
...bitterly "bumped." With slight intelligence but unlimited understanding he has made his way to where you find him with help from no man. He is the dream of all his countrymen when he reaches a high place, a tornado of an Irishman to whom morals count less than a wart on a deacon's ankle. He has a fist of iron, a heart of gold, imagination...