Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international, if not cosmic. Yet the Court asked last week: "Have you a hus-band?" Sari Fedak (shrugging a black, snaky shoulder): "Thank God, no!" The Court: "Have you any physical defects?" Sari Fedak (relaxing in her chair, replying in a sultry tone): "Certainly not-unless in my brain." Ah, reflected the auditors, more than one brain had been turned by Sari Fedak. Does not Count Emerich Dagenfeldt, now an old man, dwell locked in a wing of his castle, preparing incessantly gifts and toys for the two non-existent children whom he believes are his by Sari Fedak? Such...
...years. "The foods of greatest value in this new treatment," he reported "are butter, milk, cream, egg yolks, tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, oranges, grapefruit and pineapples. Of meats the edible viscera, which are commonly eaten only rarely, are of the greatest value; liver, lungs, sweetbreads, kidneys, beef heart and brain...
...print the correction! A month or two ago you blundered on "pons asinorum." Some half-baked brain sent in a letter attempting to correct you ; the correction was worse than your original error. I sent you a letter straightening the thing out. You did not print...
Treatment depended upon his observation that the brains of people who die of sleeping sickness are relatively waterlogged, and upon the fact that his hypertonic iodine solution demanded water in quantities. He injected his iodine (which was not poisonous) directly into the blood of patients sick with brain lethargy. Through the blood the iodine drained water from the brain...
...Pittsburgh, one Joseph Shine slept beside Ernestine Shine (his wife), dreaming of strange delights. Mrs. Shine began to toss fretfully. Into his sleep-swollen brain filtered the Shine baby's sobs, "WAAAH! Ugh, ugh, ugh." Cursing, Mr. Shine arose from his slumbers, stumbled to the crib, picked up the child (aged 1), handled it so roughly he broke...