Word: flaccidity
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...take their place. That possible inversion of symptoms is so little known that Dr. Hans Lisser of San Francisco made a stir by showing that a person's lazy insides may be prodded by thyroid treatment. Dr. Lisser's most remarkable patient suffered from ascites (abdominal dropsy); flaccid heart, intestines and bladder; profuse menstrual bleeding; secondary anemia. Iron for the anemia, thyroid extract for the other "capricious vagaries" brought, said Dr. Lisser, "magical relief...
...into the parlor in the first place. "Publish of Perish" shouts forth from the Elliothousetope the atrocitties practiced upon the HArvard faculty in a bit of muckraking of which Upton Sinclair himself could be proud. Not even the short stories have been allowed to slip into a flaccid groove, as so many of the capitalistic short stories have the habit of doing. One tale of a Kansas kindergarten teacher who loses a first-class virginity on a third-class deck, while another is the bitter challenege of a young aristocrat whom the depression forcs from college...
...which undergraduates may take are so restricted concerning admittance that the purpose of the course seems to be the ease of the instructor rather than the improvement of the student. A student to be admitted must prove his ability in writing to such an extent that flaccid criticism of his themes will not be noticed. In English A-2, the work is a mere regular exercise in writing. The stories are graded primarily as grammatical exercises...
...peers. Later he was discreetly elected Senator. Lately he reached the U. S. from Asia on a tour around the world. Paris chuckled last week at news that "Momo," pulling a solemn face, had visited the U. S. Senate, steered by California's Hiram Johnson who guided his flaccid right hand into the rough-textured paw of Vice President John Garner. Paris was not surprised that "Momo," before reaching Washington, had visited the Chicago Century of Progress and care fully inspected that show's latest thing in painted nudity - Miss Mona Leslie who pops...
...President Frank B. Noyes, publisher of the rich and flaccid Washington Star, was quick to point to the stripe of the opposition. Competitors Hearst and Scripps-Howard were always backward about cooperating with AP projects, said he, and "it is the difference of interests that is concerned here...