Word: auricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prinzmetal movie. It was a good medical story. For the first time in history, completely exposed hearts had been photographed in action by high-speed color cameras and the heart action reproduced in slow motion. The pictures indicated that the traditional theory of the heart disease called auricular fibrillation was wrong...
...three weeks, white-thatched Jesse Jones had managed to avoid testifying on some 1941 oil deals. A doctor's affidavit averred that Jones had coronary heart disease, suffered from attacks of "paroxysmal auricular fibrillation," and was in no condition to appear in court. But the plaintiff countered with an affidavit of his own. The night the medical statement was received, he claimed, Jesse had sat up until 2 in the morning playing poker with the boys, and drinking "large quantities of whiskey." The stakes ranged high, and once Jesse "backed a straight in a pot involving . . . $4,000 against...
Unintentionally significant is the scene in which Danny makes a general confession of all his young life's trespasses, receives absolution from the priest. Omniscient Oswald Spengler called autobiography a modern substitute for auricular confession. James T. Farrell has been pouring out powerful, bitter autobiographical tales for eleven years. But he has yet to feel artistic absolution, personal release from the tragic burden of his earlier environment. He plans a series of perhaps 50 volumes. The first 3,000 pages form a major contribution to U. S. literature. But his remorseless pictures of Irish-American life, from the sacristy...