Word: appendix
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Obviously Mr. Schmalhausen hits the nail on the head as often as not, but he tries to hit too many nails, to destroy too many windmills. And he should never have recounted his woes in his appendix, a "Psycho-Biography." It savours too much of Gundelfinger, and arouses painful comparisons with Upton Sinclair...
Will Rogers, five weeks out of hospital after an appendix removal, had to be "doubled" for in a cinema. As "Congressman Maverick Brander" he was supposed to come tearing out of a Washington, D. C., hotel in a nightshirt and swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. One Fred Lacey, one-time cowboy, now a bus driver, was hired as the double. Hearing a report that his life was held too dear for riding, Mr. Rogers snorted, "Huh, I may be a bum rider but I figure I'm still man enough...
Died. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, 66, militant-liberal Episcopal minister; of uremic poisoning, following an appendix operation; at Mount Kisco, N. Y. Bishop Manning of New York refused to allow him to become Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig's third husband...
...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...