Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a smoker, however, this facetious advice may be unnecessary, since many a doctor has come to the conclusion that, no matter what else it may do to you, smoking does not injure the heart of a healthy person. According to the New York State Journal of Medicine, laboratory rats injected with nicotine showed fewer heart lesions over a period of six months than did rats injected with plain saltwater...
...Nicotine in itself." said the Journal,"does not produce organic cardiovascular disease." However, because it constricts blood vessels, it may aggravate a previously existing circulatory disease. So saying, the Journal tersely announced it had nothing further to add on smoker's heart...
...rushed the boy to Metropolitan Hospital, where doctors made an incision in the chest, fished out a small circle of trouser which had been pushed up by the rod. When they made a slit up the abdomen to take stock of the damage, they found kidneys, liver, stomach, heart, lungs, glands,arteries and nerves miraculously intact. Only injuries were two punctures through the bowel which were quickly stitched up. Said Dr. E.H. Hambly, reporting the case in The Lancet last fortnight: "The patient made an uninterrupted recovery...
...during his days as a mustachioed virtuoso on the string bass that he met Natalya Konstantinovna. While sawing the thick strings of his groaning instrument at a Moscow concert, he noticed a girl in the front row, gazing at him in maidenly admiration. Koussevitzky's heart jumped, he sawed away more sweetly than ever. After the concert he searched for his admirer, but she had gone. For weeks romantic Koussevitzky was in a lovesick daze. Months later, at another concert, he spied her again in the audience, made his pachydermatous instrument serenade her with mournful and passionate moans. Again...
Died. Conway Tearle, 60, oldtime cinemactor (Dancing Mothers, Altars of Desire), stage star (Dinner at Eight). onetime matinee idol who appeared with Ellen Terry and Ethel Barrymore; of heart disease; in Hollywood...