Word: jesup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like ostriches, cassowaries, children and certain abnormal adults, dogs sometimes develop an appetite for indigestible objects. Cause of this is usually a calcium deficiency in the blood. The usual method of relief has been to slice open the dog's stomach. Last week in Manhattan. Chief Surgeon Raymond Jesup Garbutt of the S. P. C. A. demonstrated a new bloodless way which he has invented to retrieve canine inedibles. Thrusting a 36-in. forceps down the throat of a bull terrier, Dr. Garbutt removed successively an 8-oz. lead sinker, a wrist watch, a sparkplug, a pair of dice...
Stirred by this furor, the Museum administration had Whitey moved down, from the sixth floor into the main foyer and the majestic company of "Ahnighito," 36½-ton meteorite from Greenland, the regal statue of the Museum's longtime (1881-1908) President Morris Ketchum Jesup, the big scale drawing of Baluchi-therium (TIME, April 8). Although in her informal surroundings upstairs Whitey had postured freely for the Press, she now retired as if in stage fright to one end of her glass cage, sat motionless and goggling behind a fern, presented to squadrons of school children only a vague...
...September 1837, having captured a Seminole chief. Major General Thomas S. Jesup persuaded Osceola to meet one of his officers under a flag of truce, treat for peace. Trustingly Osceola advanced with several chiefs and 198 tribespeople. All threw down their guns. When the parley was well started, General Jesup's soldiers leaped from the bushes, captured the Indians without a struggle. Osceola was imprisoned in Charleston. S. C.'s Fort Moultrie where he died after three months, officially of "a quinsy." General Jesup spent the rest of his life trying to justify his black treachery...