Word: droll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...droll little mite is the leucocyte, scooting here & there, sending out inquisitive pseudopodia (prolongations) as does the amoeba. Policeman of the blood stream, it scavenges waste, destroys certain bacteria, ignoring some and gobbling others with gusto. Pus is compounded of dead bacteria, dead leucocytes. It is well known that the leucocyte count is high in infancy and old age, decreasing in between. Massage, exercise, eating proteins increase it; fasting lowers it. In such infections as pneumonia and appendicitis the white cells rush to the defense of the infected tissue, are replaced by peculiar polymorphonuclear-neutrophile cells, called "band-form" from...
...trying to cash in on his Hasty Pudding Club theatrical experience, woos and wins a lowly dancer whose fortune two shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack Whiting (America's Sweetheart). No impresarios were ever more feverishly active than droll, cow-eyed Jack Haley (Free For All), and hook-nosed Sid Silvers, who used to sit in an upper box and insult Phil Baker. Cropping out here & there in the proceedings is curvesome, loud-shouting Ethel Merman (Zimmerman...
...droll doctor is Rollo Eugene Dyer, assistant director of the National Institute of Health. His favorite drollery last summer was to pull up his trouser leg and exhibit a small, fine-meshed cage strapped to his skin. Friends peeping into the cage beheld a herd of fleas contentedly nipping at the doctor's epidermis. Raillery was always in order. Dr. Dyer is a collector of stamps. Had he now become a flea collector? He is fond of dogs. Was he shielding his dogs from vermin? No, Dr. Dyer would chuckle, and his friends seldom realized that he had ceased...
Christine Galvosier, 19, lives in a household which her father (toothy, droll A. E. Matthews) describes with cheerful resignation as "a railroad station, with everyone waiting for a different train.'' Her mother (Alice Brady, released into comedy after funereal Mourning becomes Electra) is a charming flibbertigibbet who seldom sees her rascally son or impatiently virginal daughter. Result: Daughter Christine is seduced, impregnated by a youthful Egyptian. Enter tragedy...
...volume is his recently published "Reform of the Currency," which has attracted wide attention and comment. In this book he flays not our fiscal system but the appearance of our bills. At the same time he offers suggestions for redesigning them. Other volumes of note are his Balzae's "Droll Stories," Poes "Tales," a charming little edition in two volumes of Daudet's "Tartarin of Tarascon," Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and H. G. Wells' "Time Machine," which contains a new introduction by the author...