Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical profession which examines every patent medicine and household medicament, has been sniffing at this proprietary bone for some time. The philosophy of the Journal, and of the American Medical Association, is to keep foolish people from doctoring themselves where a doctor is really needed. The family medicine chest can become, in its philosophy, a Pandora's box of evil...
...down to sunny, sandy Aiken, S. C. to visit his good Washington friends Mr. & Mrs. James F. Curtis (no kin to the Vice President). Fortnight ago he arrived at their low, shrub-bowered home behind its stone wall. His cold got no better. It went into his chest. Early last week doctors were called in, and put the Speaker into bed as a pneumonia patient. The pneumonia was dread Type...
...girl had gone to Professor Sauerbruch with a bulge at the right side of her chest. The bulge had appeared after an attack of influenza. Professor Sauerbruch ordered an X-ray made. The picture indicated a tumor in her chest cavity. Nothing but a blister, decided Professor Sauerbruch. He had but recently operated on a man for the same thing...
...making herself ugly, sacrificing her unmarried niece. When the Governor's wife discovers what a handsome fellow Mr. Woolf is, she abandons her disguise. But by this time the niece is unwilling to give up the buccaneer, makes him marry her. Mr. Woolf, blustering about with hair on his chest, is embarrassingly exhibitionistic...
...Pine Lake, Mich., Florence Tabor Critchlow, onetime mystery story writer, took poison, died. Neighbors remembered that twelve years ago, while rummaging in the cellar of her mother's home, she had opened the "hope chest" of her missing sister Maud, found Maud dead inside. Maud Tabor's mother was tried for murder; but the jury disagreed when State pathologists discovered that the girl had died after an illegal operation. The mother, who is now 92, was never retried. She said she had hidden the body because "Maud did not want to be separated from me, even in death...