Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year 10,000. But not until 1835 did the Sun become famous. And then it was the moon that made it so. A cross-eyed reporter named Richard Adams Locke wrote an ingenious account of how Sir John Herschel. with his new telescope, had found manbats, beasts and weird vegetation on the moon. Locke's hoax shoved the Sim's circulation up to 19,000-largest of any daily in the world -and Ben Day could boast that New Yorkers read the Sun by day, studied the moon by night. Nine years later the Sun fostered another fable...
While County Physician Charles H. Mitchell angrily decried what he called "weird cult practices," New Jersey officials suspended the sanatorium's license, began an investigation. Last fortnight Ten Acres was once more allowed to accept patients, on these conditions: 1) it may accept no surgical or contagious cases, no mental cases committable to a public hospital; 2) all entering patients must be examined by a licensed physician whose diagnosis must be reported at once to the State and to the patient or his guardian...
Twenty who took the questionnaire lightly made mention of the lack of a single speakeasy in Cambridge, the delicate looking women in the Yord, and the number of weird people who fit about the light of learning
...problem waned. It was not until 1807 that it broke out again in its violent manner. Maggots in the cabbage soup brought about the Cabbage Rebellion, and minor bickering continued until the outbreak of 1819, the "great Rebellion" which combined a hunger strike, and walk-out of 30 students, weird wardances, bonfires, a battle-royal of tableware, and a noted epic "The Rebelliad...
...outrageous that such weird cult practices should be permitted in the heart of civilization. On all sides there were available the facilities of advanced science that could have saved his life, and yet this boy was allowed to die without medical treatment. . . . Mrs. MacDonald, the head nurse, told me that they had no history of the case, did not even so much as know what was wrong with the boy and made no effort to find out. She told me they put him to rest in bed, gave him whatever liquid nourishment he was able to swallow, and trusted...