Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...microscopic roundworm that enters the human digestive system in undercooked pork, and burrows into the lining of the small intestine. Result: abdominal pains, diarrhea, muscular tenderness, even high fever, delirium and coma. Trichinae, which rarely infect children, may remain with a patient till the end of his life, often wander in the spinal fluid, lungs, heart, retinas and milk of nursing mothers. Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Archibald L. Hoyne and Abraham Alvin Wolf of Chicago reported a new form of trichinosis in an eleven-month-old Negro baby who died of diphtheria. Autopsy...
...Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length assignments, that stations were free to pick their own wave lengths, to wander at will through the frequencies. More than 200 stations jumped into the air in less than a year, mingled their random signals with the howls of heterodynes, raised bedlam that once more provoked a storm of pained and angry protest from listeners...
...Ethelbert King-Tenison, Viscount Kingsborough, 40, heir to the Earl of Kingston, War veteran and a onetime subaltern in the Royal Scots Greys, was on terms of the greatest intimacy with a Miss Adele Royle, 34, dressmakers' mannequin. Early this spring His Lordship's attention began to wander, and Miss Royle promptly sued for breach of promise. The case was instantly quashed in the courts, and Mannequin Royle was fined costs of court. Last week Viscount Kingsborough struck back in turn. In Miss Royle's apartment it had been His Lordship's pleasure to play with...
...years she received several letters daily from a onetime editor of the Harvard Lampoon, who wrote her that she resembled a "beautiful white horse," but disappointingly "would wander off onto the Baconian theory...
Dictatorships are dress parades for war, must attack their neighbors when the dictator's domestic show begins to pall on the audience. At all costs he must keep the populace interested, not let their minds wander from their glorious destiny, himself. "He has inspirations, walks in his sleep, shoots his friends in their beds, makes his enemies viceroys or air marshals or special ambassadors, reiterates his devotion to peace, launches warships, has birthdays, plows fields to prove that he knows the dignity of labor, shatters microphones, lowers the age for little boys to start rifle practice and for little...