Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other physicians theorizing as to its mysterious cause, was really only 104. Evelyn fooled them all with a little hot water bag hidden under her arm. But Dr. Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association, Chicago, watched through a keyhole. "Hysterical malingering" is his diagnosis. The girl is still sick, and the excitement of the expose may do what a simulated fever could not. But the physiologists are vindicated! The human body still obeys its accustomed laws...
...dreams come true. Iowa and his 100% American home prove too much for him-par-ticularly after an unsuccessful attempt has been made to condemn him to Yale and he flies to New York. There he encounters another rebellious but less illusionary young person from home-a girl who finds life a hoax and love nothing but filth...
...series of disillusionments, in chance meetings with street- walkers, bums, financiers. At one point he tries a bottle of rat poison, but finds in it not oblivion but a stomach ache. The girl is more successful in her choice of poisons, and dies on his hands-finding some satisfaction in the reflection that she dies clean. He is unfortunately jailed; and is visited by his father, who tries unsuccessfully to bring him back to Iowa. The play ends up with an astounding nightmare, in the course of which all the minor characters dance about him, tempting or mocking...
...unusual case of fever, believed to be due to peritonitis, is reported from Escanaba, Mich. Dr. H. J. Defnet, City Health Commissioner, reports that he and five other physicians have examined a girl patient suffering for ten days from a temperature of around 114 degrees. At times the temperature apparently went higher, but clinical thermometers at hand could record no higher. Surgical interference was declined, and the physicians in attendance are awaiting developments...
...painting by a Chinese girl, Rose Yawyow, was given the first award at a recent exhibition of 200 oil paintings at the Seattle Fine "Arts Society...