Word: gout
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...Baltimore Stin's Henry Mencken, who was disillusioned long ago. Noting the widespread pain of the pinks, he opined: "The will to believe is not cured by a single sellout, nor even by a dozen on end. It is a chronic affliction, and as intractable as gout, the liquor habit, or following the horses. The American pinks have had it for a long time and they will carry it to the grave, and even let us hope, beyond...
Since George thought it behooved royalty, like deity, to possess unflagging health, Caroline minimized her gout and hernia, wore herself out in a decade by constant attention to his Kingly interests. On her deathbed she advised the sobbing King to marry again, knowing his need for feminine sympathy. "No," he spluttered inconsolably, "I will have mistresses...
Press Lord No. 4 is Julius Salter Elias, Lord Southwood, a onetime errand boy who has high-pressured his undistinguished Daily Herald to the 2,000,000 mark. No. 3 press lord is Lord Camrose of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post* (700,000), a Conservative who suffers from gout and jaundice. No. 2 is Lord Rothermere. He acquired control of the Daily Mail (1.530,000) from his brother, Lord Northcliffe, a sensationalist who fathered the whole lordly breed. No. 1, by intelligence, ability, resource and his gift for the common touch-as well as by circulation figures- is William...
Bedded with gout at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister reshuffled his Cabinet as follows: Sir Kingsley Wood, formerly Health Minister, becomes Air Secretary; Lord Harlech, who had just entered the peerage because of his father's death, and who formerly as William Ormsby-Gore was Colonial. Secretary, is succeeded in that post by Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late great Ramsay; Lord Stanley becomes Dominions Secretary, the office vacated by Mr. MacDonald; and Major Walter Elliot is made Health Minister, relinquishing the Secretaryship for Scotland to Lieut. Colonel David John Colville, formerly Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
...affliction as perennial as Yankee gout is Harvard's advisory system, Freshman advisers are noted for their well-meaning but negative, and sometimes absent, guidance of Yardlings, many of whom have come from schools where personal and thorough counsel from older teachers was a rule rather than an exception. Inseparable from the problem of guidance in a year turbulent for Freshmen with new educational methods and new scholastic standards is that of maladjustment. There are two kinds of maladjusted Freshmen; first, those that come to Cambridge either with personality, social and moral, or financial problems, for whose predicament there...