Word: ez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deciding eventually that the Count could not absorb the pus in the abscess, Dr. Castillo called into consultation Dr. Ricardo Núñez Portuondo, crack surgeon, onetime president of the Cuban Federation of Medicine. Surgeon Núñez lanced the abscess. Within 48 hours out oozed a quart of accumulated blood. In a subsequent hemorrhage the Count lost another pint of blood. Packing the abscess cavity with gauze failed to stop bleeding. Drugs failed to stop it. Nothing seemed able to make the patient's blood clot. He was at the point of dying from hemophilia...
...bloodless was the patient that Dr. Núñez was obliged to dissect the muscles of the arm to locate a vein through which to transfuse donated blood...
...should quiet down. A few weeks ago brazen Juan March was offering publicly to highest bidders the Governorship of a Spanish province and all its seats in the Cortes, which he claimed to control. Last week Dastard March and the blameless Duquesa de Fernán Núñez were about equally scared. The Duchess stripped off her great rope of pearls, left it with Spanish frontier guards "for safe keeping," because otherwise they obstinately refused to permit Her Grace to flee to France...
...hell did he ever do for Denver? Paint him out and put me up there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night. At the performance at the Tabor Grand, "Three-Fingered" Hoover ("ez fine a man wuz he ez ever caused an inquest or blossomed on a tree!") rescued "Cameel" from "Armo," just the way the hardy mountaineers stop the show in Showboat. He told...
...never made money, announced that it would continue publication. But in his presumptuous "grading" of debutantes in the January issue it was observed that Editor John C. Schemm dealt only with grades "A," "B," "C" and a list headed "And Also." Gone were the dreadful "D" and "EZ" classifications which were alleged to include names of young ladies whose parents had chosen not to become Tatler stockholders...