Word: angina
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...comprehensible alarm had not been conquered when the moment befell for her first aria, 'Mi chiamano Mimi,' which contained so many errors of note and time particularly in the tricky opening phrase, that Mr. Bellezza in the orchestra pit must have suffered not a few palpitations of angina pectoris. Like many another tone in this act, the final high C was gratingly off pitch...
Balance of Power. Angina pectoris (heart disease), from which he had long suffered (last year he had an attack in the Capitol barbershop), carried off Senator Andrieus Aristieus Jones, New Mexico Democrat. The Senate expressed profound regret in a resolution. Vice President Dawes detailed ten Senators to attend the funeral in Las Vegas...
...barber telephone for Rear Admiral Grayson.* The bootblack quickly returned with several containers of whiskey and other restoratives. Senator Jones revived. Presently the Doctor-Admiral arrived, and Senator Jones was removed to the Emergency hospital. His condition was pronounced serious. For several years he has suffered from angina pectoris. An hour previous to his collapse in the barber shop, Senators had noted he looked poorly. He had been making a speech on one of the most complicated matters Senators ever gave ear to-the Alien Property Bill...
...against heart trouble as they did against tuberculosis and more recently against cancer. They talk of heart disease, for the sake of simplicity, as though it were a simple malady. It is not. There is probably no disease that actually starts in the heart. (Cancer of the heart and angina pectoris may be exceptions.) But practically all diseases of the heart are brought to it. Hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure and Bright's disease, cause 40% of heart troubles; rheumatic fever, 25%; syphilis, 10%; various other sicknesses, 15%. In only 10% of the cases are the causes...
...Ernest Henry Shackleton was knighted for journeying to within 97 miles of the South Pole. In 1922, he died of angina pectoris...