Word: colics
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...been put to good use by the alert Scripps-Howard newspapers. People metaphorically stutter when in trouble or when annoyed. They like to have some handyman appear when the water is shut off, when a neighbor's garbage is dumped in their backyard, when their cat gets the colic, when there is a hole in the road in front of their garage. Five years ago, Editor H. D. Jacobs of the Scripps-Howard Baltimore Post conceived the idea of making one of his reporters a Mr. Fixit, whose duty would be to solve the troubles of Baltimoreans. Mr. Fixit...
...much to enliven religious activities in U. S. colleges. Having ended Union Theological Seminary studies, he took his wife, who had herself studied medicine, to China. There their baby was born in 1898 (the excitement interrupted one of the young father's most interesting letters), teethed, had colic, caught the grip, grew stout...
...friends took Dr. Patrick for a thorough inspection of filmland, including even a Mack Sennett bathing beauty scene. And they gave him, together with his ticket back to Marceline, Mo., a fee whose proportions will not be approached until Marceline, Mo., breaks out with simultaneous epidemics of mumps, colic, babies and pink...
...England in which radio messages are sent to her concerning the health of her baby, Princess Elizabeth, now under the personal care of the Queen-Empress Mary. Flower names were chosen by the Duchess as baby code words. Rose: well and happy. Dogwood: whooping cough. Lily: sleeps well. Snapdragon: colic...
...with verve and passion in his own defense: "This creature Davillard, my dishwasher, my scullion, what did he do that I should stab him in the chest with my carving skewer? Ha! Nom de Dieu! Standing at his filthy sink, he declared that my sauces stink, that they engender colic in delicate stomachs. My sauces! Sacre bleu! The pride of my cuisine. The pride of France. . . . "Mes amis, the sensibilities, the temperament of a great chef cannot be thus baited with impunity! Blood swam before my eyes. ... I skewered him it is true. . . . Next day he died at the hospital...