Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BURLESQUE ? Hearts broken and mended on the burlesque wheel...
...tall, old doctor stops at a patient slumped in a wheel chair. He lifts the patient's dull face by the chin and turns to the visitors. The loose ends of his black string tie, which he always wears in a bow, flop about as he explains the case. "This man," he says in effect, "is in the early stages of paresis.* The paralysis has not advanced hopelessly. By injecting into his blood the germs of malaria or serum from the blood of people sick with malaria, we will stop the spread of the syphilis. The malaria toxins...
...last week sent in his resignation. Said he, in the battered phraseology of President Coolidge: "I do not choose to run for the Yale Corporation in 1928." When he ran for Mayor of New York City against Justice William J. Gaynor in 1909, Mr. Bannard was described as "a wheel-horse."* Busy-body reporters trying to color his personality, inquired: "What is you favorite form of exercise?" The reply: "None. I tell you I'm the damnedest, most uninteresting man you ever met!" He is also, however, a onetime President of the New York Trust Co. When the Merchants...
...wheel-horse" is faithful, hardworking, unpicturesque, seeking no glory for his labor, ever ready to perform tasks for the organization when others shirk...
...name of Jacob Orgen to the scroll of those who have paid with their lives for attempting to advance their fellow man, who put their shoulder to the wheel of the wain of progress only to have the wain turn juggernaut. But in the Ghetto read the name as "Little Augie," a pioneer in a now overcrowded profession, who added finesse to the art of unmodified murder. He was the first to shudder at the crudeness of a Jimmie Valentine's jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor...