Word: rump
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...embittered soul, a keen eye for the grotesque and a liking for the rough & tumble life of taverns and streets. David Blythe painted drunks, loafers, pickpockets, runaway horses, grinning bill-collectors, swaying stagecoaches. With warm colors and swift, vigorous draughtsmanship, he poked fun at such everyday events as the rump-bumping scramble for mail in Post Office (see cut) or a lawyer braying at a gaping jury in A Court Room Scene...
Saying that a letter signed by seven of the nine members of the executive committee of the Harvard Student Union was "written by what might be called a rump of the executive board" is of course making a statement of which any member of the League of Yellow Journalists should be proud. Commendable from this point of view also is the implication that the former president of the Peace Society and the Phillips Brooks House representative on the committee (both of whom led the opposition to national affiliation) are members of a "tireless and determined radical group" merely because they...
...honestly believe that national affiliation will be without effect upon the policies and activities of the Harvard Student Union. The letter, printed elsewhere on this page, and written by what might be called a rump of the executive board in spite of its shadowy claims to unanimity, shows a frantic grasping for the integrity surrendered by last Thursday's vote...
...Count of Covadonga, and his wife, a buxom Cuban girl whom he had wooed when both were patients in a Swiss sanatorium, paused in Manhattan last autumn on their way to Cuba, that frail and amiable young man was secretly suffering with an acute pain in his right rump. In Havana the outcast couple rented a modest apartment, all they could afford on the small allowance they get from onetime King Alfonso XIII, who until this year considered his heir's marriage to a Cuban commoner a sin against the royal house of Bourbon. Soon as the young people...
...which causes syphilis. In the usual modern treatment some compound of arsenic, such as Neosalvarsan, is used as the main weapon, some form of mercury or bismuth as supplement. The arsenic compound is usually injected into a vein in the arm. Mercury or bismuth compounds are injected into the rump...