Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appendix was on the left side instead of the right, making diagnosis difficult...
...Helen Wills, onetime (1923-25) U. S. women's tennis champion: Asked about my future, Mlle Lengien, 'Cleopatra of tennis', replied with what some people thought was amusing malice: 'She is a great player. Her operation [appendix] may or may not hurt her game, but it is not her biggest handicap. I was surprised to find she is letting herself get fat. Helen is getting too big about the hips.' My coach, W. C. ('Pop') Fuller swiftly retorted for me that my figure is mathematically perfect has not varied for months...
Then there were pages devoted to the effects, positive and negative, of: wearing high-heeled shoes; developing the body by "exercises"; using cosmetics and 'hair dyes; taking anesthetics; removing surplus hair; removing the appendix; smoking; dieting to cure diabetes; undergoing the Steinach operation for rejuvenation...
...some matters, they all agreed that flesh predominated. And this is true of the first few scenes. But shortly after the rip snorting Charleston number, featuring the Hoffman's scrub team --we know it wasn't the 'Varsity, because in New York the left tackle had had her appendix removed--there was a subtle change...
...what aboard the Pole-crossing Norge (TIME, Aug. 2). Mr. Ellsworth was quoted directly. Hurt, angry, he flayed the Norwegian Aero Club for permitting Nobile to assume prominence upon the expedition in the first instance, and specifically, for telling Nobile, lately, that he might write more than a "technical appendix" to the official book of the trip, which Ellsworth and Amundsen are compiling. Words like this came forth: "They have handed me a rotten deal. . . . How very different when they needed money...