Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stones. The marines used their rifle butts as clubs, cracked a few crowns, but gently. For four hours the game of bluff and bruises continued. Once 20 coolies, armed only with sticks, bore a British marine to the ground, tore his rifle from him, plunged the bayonet into his heart. Still no shot was fired. Then, suddenly, a troop of Chinese soldiers from the Nationalist stronghold across the river arrived and dispersed the mob with a few shots. The commander blandly explained to the British that he had been delayed. No fool, the British Consul knew that he lied...
...Heart Diseases 185.5 178.1 Gain...
That is one reason why more people are now dying of heart diseases, kidney diseases and cancer (characteristic maladies of middle age and senescence) than died a generation ago. Formerly people who would have had these ailments died young. But, in the case of heart diseases, the hazard of death has been actually increasing. Louis Israel Dublin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stressed this fact in the current Harper's. According to him. out of 100 ways of dying, a boy of ten now has 19 chances of dying eventually from heart diseases...
Doctors have begun to warn against heart trouble as they did against tuberculosis and more recently against cancer. They talk of heart disease, for the sake of simplicity, as though it were a simple malady. It is not. There is probably no disease that actually starts in the heart. (Cancer of the heart and angina pectoris may be exceptions.) But practically all diseases of the heart are brought to it. Hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure and Bright's disease, cause 40% of heart troubles; rheumatic fever, 25%; syphilis, 10%; various other sicknesses, 15%. In only...
...from his passion for her, she pretends to offer herself as the stake in a cowpunchers' card game. That makes the hero so angry, he rushes out into the night, divests himself of virtue. But the villainous-looking Judge fools everybody by turning up with a truly great Western heart about the end of Act II, and reconciling the two lovers. As the final curtain steals down, the heroine pats her boy lover on his curly noddle, fixes an intent gaze on Row M, chants mystically, "Life is all a great joke...