Word: lumbago
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Yvette, chic French begum of the portly Ago Khan, came down with what her secretary called "just a little lumbago." She joined her husband for the weekend in the Paris hospital where he is recovering from an operation...
Internationalism & Lumbago. Few presidents have sunk their roots deeper or let their branches spread so wide. During the 22 years of the Neilson era, Smith became the biggest women's college in the world, and one of the most prestigious in the U.S. Neilson believed in educational equality for women, but he scorned the notion that college should 36 a trade school for girls...
...much to banish Smith's finishing-school atmosphere. Neilson treated his "2,000 daughters"*as intellectual equals, with no pomposity. In his weekly chats in chapel he was as apt to urge them to internationalism as he was to lecture them on their posture, lest they end with lumbago...
...order of the pink heart has been voted unanimously to Jack Ingram for sustaining the first major wound of the battle of Harvard Square. Others have suffered fractured bones and various versions of lumbago, but these ailments are not of a permanent nature. There's no redeeming a front tooth lost in a touch football game. Jack's only satisfaction lies in showing the boys what a perfect specimen it is, as it sparkles in solitary pearliness--in the palm of his hand...
...league baseball, Gehrig has only once been dangerously hurt. This was when a pitched ball knocked him unconscious in 1934. But he was in the lineup the next day, hit three triples in five innings. Closest call of all came when Gehrig was laid up with acute lumbago. To save his record, Manager Joe McCarthy had him motored to the park, put him at the head of the batting order instead of his usual position of 4th, made arrangements to have him whisked back to his sick bed as soon as he could contrive...