Word: goitrous
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...better feature is "A Night to Remember," but you'll forget it easily enough. It's a spotty murder mystery with a few funny and a few exciting moments, all of which were given away in the prevue. Loretta Young looks starry-eyed and goitrous, while Brian Aherne does what he can with material that calls on him to be intelligent one moment and a preuatal idiot the next...
Professor Loeb found that the cause of this bulging was not in the individual's thyroid itself, although the thyroid was overworking as hard as any goitrous thyroid. By systematically shuffling the hormones of many creatures, he found that the seat of Graves's Disease is in the pituitary gland, a chestnut-sized nugget lying midway between the temples. Through its many hormones the pituitary in one way or another manages the activities of practically all the other ductless glands. One of the pituitary's hormones, Professor Loeb found, specifically excites the thyroid and causes the eyes...
...translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property of Rossetti. He often said he would marry her but put it off so long that when he finally did she was ungrateful and obviously dying. But she lived long enough to suspect Rossetti...
...program for a dissertation on thyroid deficiency, a commonly unrecognized disorder. Their interest in goiter has forced the Mayos to investigate the real causes for the falling off of their goiter business. They had a goiter survey made of Minnesota. There were actually fewer goiters in that goitrous State than any prior survey had shown. To the astonished surveyors it did not seem possible that Minnesota goiters had been operated or medicated out of existence. Unless depressed and worried existence prevented goiters, it seemed probable that five, ten years ago the State and the nation were in a goiter epidemic...
...Kero, fell ill of a cold, recovered, as did two chimpanzees, Teddy and Jo-Jo. These episodes were reported far & wide, but nowhere did a U. S. writer wax so eloquent as did Colyumist "Doc" Adams of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin upon the death last month of a goitrous orang-outang named Jennie. Colyumist Adams wrote the following elegy...