Word: hist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hist. of Religions...
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Pliny records (Nat. Hist. Lib. vii. -xxvii) a similar instance. A more detailed account of such a phenomenon is given in a curious tract in the Bodleian [Bodl. Pamph. Godw. 87. (4)] which bears the following title: Prodlgium Willingkamense: Or, authentic Memoirs in the Life of a Boy, Born at Willingham, near Cambridge, October 31, 1741; who, before he was Three Years old, was Three Feet, Eight inches high And had the Marks of Puberty. With some Reflections on his Understanding, Strength, Temper, Memory, Genius and Knowledge. By T. Dawkes, Surgeon. London...
...quote Variety) "mitt-reading." Its first issue carried an "exclusive" spirit message from the late Conan Doyle -"scooping the Cosmopolitan by a full month." Captain Billy is frankly worshipful toward his Whiz Bang. Wherever he travels he sends back great sheaves of ribald jokes and also, with intense pride, hist monthly editorial: "Drippings from the Fawcett." In elaborate metaphor he voices his love for the common people, liquor and the "pleasures of living"; his hate for Prohibition, reformers, censors, etc. etc. He enjoys referring to himself as "this bristle-whiskered old sodbuster." to his wife as "the henna-haired heckler...