Word: glandularly
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...Gluecks also disproved the idea that glandular disturbances cause delinquency, since their staff physician found such disturbances among 32.9 per cent of the offenders and 34.3 per cent of the non-offenders. They also showed that delinquents are not more emotionally unstable than normal children. In fact, their study revealed that there was emotional weakness among 49 per cent of the delinquents as contrasted with 56 per cent of the non-delinquents...
...history of the British house of art dealers, is considered one of Behrman's finest journalistic accomplishments. The Duveens, however, are not among its admirers. Lady Duveen--whom he has never met--spits, Behrman says, whenever she hears his name. "Of course," he adds, "she may have a glandular condition...
John and Frances Gunther's first brush with death came in 1929, when their only daughter Judy died at four months of a glandular ailment. In April 1946 they learned that their only son, then 16, had a brain tumor. For 15 months Johnny, a lively, charming youngster, clung heroically to life and sanity. Though Frances (who now lives in Jerusalem) had divorced Gunther in 1944, they fought an agonizing side-by-side battle for Johnny's life. In desperation they consulted more than 30 doctors, tried such extreme treatments as intravenous mustard-gas injections, which had never...
Frank Sinatra: At first there were only the bony fingers on the screen snapping out the electric rhythms against a black backstop. Then the camera pulled back to pick up the little man with the zooty clothes, the sad, sunken face and the glandular voice that coiled around Lonesome Road ("Lord, I'm gettin' mighty weary of this cotton pickin' load"). With the assured grace of a precision instrument, Crooner Frank Sinatra was making a TV comeback (after a flop in 1952) with his own show and the fattest contract in show business. For 13 half-hour...
...boiling up several hundred sows' ears into "glue" resembling a silkworm's glandular secretion, adding acetone to make jelly, filtering and spinning under high pressure into fine "threads" hardened with chrome alum and formaldehyde, weaving on a hand loom...