Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran of the White House Janizariat went to Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), had his appendix removed. A friend who keeps up with doings in New Zealand (see p. 72) sent him one dozen fertile hens' eggs to take into bed with him and hatch out*-during his forced absence from plots & plans in Washington...
...upbringing was such that I hate to see the U. S. A. at this late day turned into a vermiform appendix of the British Empire, that's all. Got to stop now to congratulate Margaret Halsey, who twisted the British Lion's tail so sweetly in With Malice Toward Some...
Vermiform Appendix...
...exists also in the guard ranks, with the graduation of Allen, Nee and Klein. Question-marks are Chief Boston, out of spring practice due to illness and an appendix operation, center Tim Russell, injured practically all of last season, and Torby MacDonald, sensational wingback, who took the place of the injured Bob Stuart last year, but who has been harassed by leg-trouble since...
After the War of 1812, Isaac Franklin made a fortune of $750,000 as a slave trader, had the finest house in Tennessee, six big plantations in Louisiana, 600 slaves. This academic biography with its voluminous notes and appendix is interesting for its detailed account of slave trading as a business...