Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Charles Euchariste de' Medici Sajous, 76, of Philadelphia, outstanding U. S. ductless gland specialist, occupant of the world's first chair of endocrinology (University of Pennsylvania), scion of French-Flemish nobility, member of the French Academy; of heart disease; in Philadelphia...
...April evening in Manhattan five years ago, a slight, aquiline-featured man returned from a theatre to his room. No sooner had he crossed the threshold than lines of anguish twisted across his face and he fell dead from a heart attack. His death was unforeseen, but many of his friends believed that his health had been gravely impaired during the investigation of alleged construction faults in Nebraska's new $9,000,000 state capitol at Lincoln. That building, the friends claimed, was Architect Goodhue's sovereign design, imbued with all his prowess and pride. To hear...
...sweeter than at any other time. . . . "Yet, against all that tenderness of beauty, in spite of an apparent transcendent peace, the intense heat bred its intensity of emotion, a dangerous bitterness of conviction, hatred together with loyalty and a fatal pride. The deep South reacted deeply, darkly, from its heart; its passions were not tempered by deliberate intelligence. It had, together with its fineness, an unrestrained brutality of act destructive like the blaze of its sun. It had an integrity but it was not the measured dignity of mind. Its integrity lay in the virtues of extreme loyalty and unassailable...
...trotted out on the laboratory roof. Toward the end of the afternoon the doctors were summoned and there in the sunshine lay a monstrous dead bulldog, by now twice the weight of her litter mate, a dog fit for baying at enormous moons. In the burning heat her heart and lungs had failed to function for her abnormal, pituitarily overgrown body. Dead though she was, however, she had proved it possible to grow giants in a laboratory...
Tuberculosis antagonists last week at last had something to say more audible than the claims of the cancer, heart disease, pneumonia and even leprosy people. If their demands for public attention and support have made the undiscerning U. S. suppose that tuberculosis was diminishing in this country, they last week, through the National Tuberculosis Association averred that it has been increasing in at least the larger cities. Thirty-eight cities last year recorded 24,471 deaths, 430 more than in 1927. One softening of the picture was that those same cities increased their populations during 1928. So the death rate...