Word: blood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to Japan, where he was consulting physician of the Imperial Colonial Department. He stayed in Japan nine years and was decorated by the Emperor before leaving. He then studied in Berlin and Vienna, and finally returned to America. He opened an office in Worcester, where he contracted blood poisoning, from which he died...
...United States feels tight," said Soviet War Commissar Clemence Voroshilov, last week, haranguing a Leningrad conference of The Party (Communist). "I mean by tight," continued Comrade Voroshilov, "exactly what I say! Grown gigantic and bloated with capital like a giant blood sausage, the United States feels tight within its frontiers...
Lest any dunderhead should fail to catch his drift, War Minister Voroshilov added that there is another bloated blood sausage which feels tight, namely Great Britain, and that "one need not be particularly Bolshevik to foresee that a solution lies in armed conflict between them...
...nothing of a complete scientific compendium of whaledom. But far more than these it offers so excellent a parable on the mystery of evil that every man can read into it the drama of his own experience. "Mr. D. H. Lawrence sees in the conflict a battle between the blood-consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck Brooks has found in the white whale an image like that of Grendel...
Necessary and desired as salt is, it is forbidden those suffering from high blood pressure, Bright's disease, dropsy. Victims can forego the ingestion of salt. But its taste they crave. Chemists and pharmacists have long sought to compound a substance that tastes like salt but is harmless in these diseases...