Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, almost penniless, onetime Champion Carnera was discovered sprawled out on two beds in a Budapest hospital, wistfully admiring a silk bathrobe he used to wear in the ring. He had suffered a kidney hemorrhage and was definitely through with fighting. One of his few prudent acts while in the money will save him from the fuddled penury of most prizefighters' declining years. He had given his mother a little hotel in Venice. The injured and obsolete giant plans to go there and retire...
Died. Charles Scotto, 51, famed chef at Manhattan's Hotel Pierre; after a kidney operation; in New York City. Born in Monte Carlo, he was in his youth a close friend and favorite pupil of famed French Chef Auguste Escoffier, lived to become president of the American Culinary Federation, parent organization of all U. S. chef and gourmet societies...
...livers of senile men and women, continued Dr. MacNider, and the organs of senile dogs, even those that are known never to have been touched by poison or disease, are composed almost entirely of flat cells. Those senile flat cells are identical in appearance with the flat liver and kidney cells of young dogs which Dr. MacNider experimentally poisoned...
...noteworthy that he sent a report of it all the way to England, where it was published in the issue of Nature which came back to the U. S. last week. Dr. Link had found a plant hormone called heteroauxin, previously found elsewhere, in the nodules of red kidney beans. When applied to the bean roots, a paste containing the hormone caused bending, coiling, vertical retardation of root growth, lateral acceleration of root growth, local increase in thickness of the root...
...strapping, vigorous Ontario started taking the orders of a chubby, double-chinned, deep-dimpled, dynamic man she calls "Mitch." Two years ago he left her suddenly for Florida, announcing "I will retire from public life! There is no chance of my changing my mind." However, when the remaining kidney which had thus sent the Hon. Mitchell ("Mitch") Frederick Hepburn flying so suddenly south was cured, he rejoiced with gusto that he had never, even in his most discouraged hours, resigned as Premier of Ontario and with whoops of redoubled vigor tore back to Toronto...