Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Activities of the Barrymores: Ethel, 57, announced by radio the end of her 44-year stage and screen career, told the world she would devote her time to helping "young players seeking advice about acting." John, 54. lying ill of a heart ailment, heard that Elaine Barrie, 21, with whom he last year had a "blessed relationship" but from whom he is now estranged, would keep the diamond ring he had given her. Lionel, 58, finished playing Andrew Jackson in MGM's The Gorgeous Hussy, began to prepare for his role as Duval Sr. in forthcoming Camille...
Last week squat, roly-poly Tom Pendergast, Democratic Boss of Kansas City, was in Manhattan having his heart ailment treated by a specialist. Meanwhile he was, as usual, the prime issue when Missouri held its primaries. On an anti-Pendergast platform William Hirth, longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious...
...attack of influenza last April, in a Washington hospital; Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., of influenza, in Rawlins, Wyo.; James Ramsay MacDonald, of an infection, in London; John Jacob Raskob, of neuritis, in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, of a gastric ailment, in Quebec...
...Disease can be diagnosed by its odor every ailment having a different odor...
...Morgan's neuritis was real misery. In this ailment the nerves become inflamed. Those most often affected are the great nerves in arms and legs. Sharp pains dart along them, causing intense agony. Muscles may lose their tone, permit the limbs to dangle. The diagnostic problem is to discover and treat the original cause of the neural inflammation. This may be some toxin absorbed by the system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis...