Word: edema
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Lung Injurants are gases which cause pulmonary edema, which means that water pours into the lungs, suffocating or "drowning" the victim. Chlorine is a lung injurant. Phosgene (carbonyl chloride) is a much better one, not so irritating at first but ten times more toxic. This gas was first used by the Germans late in 1915 and then adopted by the Allies, while the Germans switched to diphosgene which is less stable than its chemical brother but easier to fill into shells. The phosgenes accounted for 80% of the War's fatal gas casualties. Nevertheless, it had a tell-tale...
...style, but Rich Man's Folly remains an effort rather than an achievement. It never gets under the shipbuilder's thick skin; his follies seem irrational, not tragic. The shipbuilder's son-in-law is Robert Ames, 42, who died suddenly in Manhattan last week, of edema of the brain. He had acted with Ruth Chatterton in Tomorrow & Tomorrow (released next month...
...maudites" "tout Paris," "les dames Ameriquaines" etc.? I am keeping tab on you out of sheer love and hope for your artistic success. (Any damn fool can make money.) Dropped lines seem to be chronic with you now. That kind of "dropsy" is worse than your competitor's edema verbosum. And such crudities as "war boats" and wan dirge" make one suspect that, after all, there may "be a reason" for letters like the "famed" X. Y. Z. W. Something-Somethingelse's.f To one who fully realizes the beauty "swan-song" and the aptness inventor...