Word: warts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had definite ideas on the best way to cure warts. Tom favored "spunk-water" (rain water in a rotten tree stump). One of Huck's favorite prescriptions required a dead cat: "Why, you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard 'long about midnight when somebody wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three . . . and when they're taking the feller away, you heave your cat after 'em and say, 'Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow...
...Stevens of the United Steelworkers, CIO, and Alfred Van Wart of the Brotherhood of Train Workers. AFL, spoke on the subject from the standpoint of labor itself. Despite the increasing influence of workers and the rise in organized unions, they explained that the number of positions open for outsiders was almost none, and that entry into labor relations work was possible only after a long working association with the union itself...
...continued stories. Like the soft light of a kerosene lamp, they light up, with humor and understanding, the quiet corners of everyday life that are passed over by the searchlights of the news. The runny-nosed children and distracted parents of "Born Thirty Years Too Soon," "The Worry Wart" and "Why Mothers Get Gray" are gently comic memories of many an American childhood. "Bull of the Woods" goes all round a machine shop to show that there, too, human nature runs triumphantly rampant. And Williams' slackjawed, dust-caked cowhands, Curly, Stiffy, Wes and Soda of Out Our Way, have...
Ever since than contest, except for a ten-year gap from 1912 to 1922 and a four-year wart-time halt, the annual gridiron struggle with the Crimson has always promoted an Indian hegira from their reservation in Hanover to the relatively "big city" gaiety...
...sweaters, Chicago, Monongahela, Steubenville. Larry was one of the smallest of the lot, but unlike the older competitors he did not worry about losing; he just thought about how to win. Said he: "I ain't afraid of Pittsburgh . . . he leaves too many edgers. And Cleveland has a wart on his thumb, or sumphin', and can't make his shooter stick. . . . I ain't worried...