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...pretty, but she had a chronic runny nose. She had to blow it so much it completely messed up her social life. But her real trouble wasn't her nose at all: her father & mother had always treated her as a boy and the otherwise normal young woman used her sniffles as a subterfuge to keep young men at arm's length. When she realized what was really the matter with her, her nose stopped running. And eventually she married happily...
...Walter Winchell: Hard to tell just what's biting this middle-aged ex-chorus boy. False shame of his race . . . may be at the root of it all. Anyhow ... he suffers from a chronic state of wild excitement, venom and perpetual motion...
Leprosy, the earth's most chronic disease, is so old that mankind has learned to fear it with a neurotic fear.* The world's 3,000,000 lepers are not alone in wanting to find a cure...
...spearhead of radicalism in the new cabinet" ("a tall sharp-faced man, with irregular yellow teeth, generally clamped on a long black cigar, he made a bad first impression," but his reasoning and his conviction won him friends). There was Amos Kendall, the Harry Hopkins of the age ("his chronic bad health may have created a special bond with the President, and Jackson soon began to rely on Kendall for aid in writing his messages. . . . Gradually, Kendall's supreme skill in interpreting, verbalizing and documenting Jackson's intuitions made him indispensable...
...Chronic Inflammation. It is Author Schlesinger's novel contention that the orthodox schoolmen have been wrong about Jackson's popular support. Says Schlesinger: The enduring basis of Jackson's strength was not the intermittent radicalism of the West and South, but the chronic radicalism of the Eastern working classes. It was alliance with them which enabled Jacksonism to advance beyond Jeffersonism, to the Jeffersonian insistence on political freedom, Jacksonism added the insistence on economic freedom-the catchword of the New Deal...