Word: heart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days after his inauguration he collapsed, discovered that he had an ailing heart. His wife died. His son and secretary, Richard, sadly embarrassed him by talking too much and out of turn. And midway of his first Legislature in Sacramento, Culbert Olson had learned enough to moan that the Laborites and assorted liberals who concerted to elect him had made a disastrous mistake. They let Republican conservatives retain control in the Senate, Democratic conservatives in the lower Assembly. Before it adjourned last week after the longest (133 days) biennial session in California history, California's Legislature...
...vegetable fats, no milk, butter or fresh vegetables. Not only were these rats stricken with well-known deficiency diseases such as pernicious anemia (lack of iron), goiter (lack of iodine), beriberi (lack of vitamin B), but they also developed pneumonia, pleurisy, deafness, adenoids, eye ulcers, kidney stones, gastric ulcers, heart disease, skin infections...
...Heart's centre" of the story is petite, passionate Mrs. Esther Jack, a stage designer with a grown daughter and a nebulous husband somewhere in the Park Avenue background. Hero is not Eugene Gant but a presumably new character named George ("Monk") Webber. Unlike Eugene, he is of medium height, pug-nosed, simian-shaped. His antecedents are carefully different from Gant's. But no disguise will hide a Thomas Wolfe hero...
...times Monk speaks as follows: "Can I devour you? Can I feed my life on yours, get all your life and richness into me, walk about with you inside me, breathe you into my lungs like harvest, absorb you, eat you, melt you, have you in my brain, my heart, my pulse, my blood forever . . ." and so on until the smell of burning food calls a halt...
...risk one's life for a plane any more than a farmer ploughs for the sake of the plough. But the airplane is a means of getting away from towns and their bookkeeping and coming to grips with reality. ... It plunges a man directly into the heart of mystery...