Word: leper
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Characterizing Russell as a "moral leper," Sullivan called his appointment "inconsistent with the piety and dignity of the Lowells and the Elliots." The resolution was referred to the committee on rules...
...have missed an issue of your timely magazine, and may thus seem ignorant of recent developments, but what has happened to Hawaii? Has it been secretly anschlussed by Japan? Have the ocean waves risen to engulf it-Navy, pineapples, Kalaupapa leper settlement and all? Or are your editors ignorant of the fact that the Organic Act declares Hawaii to be an American Territory, "an integral part...
...Middle Ages lepers were dreaded and shunned, were forced to wear white capes and jangle warning bells. But in the U. S. today they are the favorite patients of the U. S. Public Health Service. Each leper at the Carville hospital has a private room and an abundance of savory food, costs the Health Service $3 a day. For Carville lepers are the last carriers of a mysterious malady that is fast disappearing from...
...Cuban leper, his arm scarred and painfully ulcerated, was bitten by a poisonous tropical spider. Strangely enough, he felt no ill effects, and the searing pain in his arm diminished for several days. His doctor passed the remarkable news on to his colleagues and soon the Pasteur Institute in Paris began work on the use of animal poisons for relief of uncontrollable pain. That was ten years ago. Most practical poison to use, the French scientists discovered, is cobra venom, which is easy to extract, measure and inject. Fortnight ago, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Robert Northwall...
Divorced. Ken Maynard, 44, slick-haired film cowboy, and Mary Leper Maynard, 40, originator of Hollywood's drunk service; in Hollywood. Grounds: incompatibility. Her discreet, ginger-ale drinking "Cavaliers" will, for a fee, accompany a client on an alcoholic evening, insure...