Word: lumbago
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...result of rheumatism. Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis did not appear at all because of a bad cold. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes got to his seat on the bench only with great difficulty. His 90 years settled like a dead weight around his shuffling feet and lumbago stooped his black-gowned shoulders low. A strong steady hand from Chief Justice Hughes finally got him up the steps to the bench, steered him to his high-backed black leather chair. There the oldest man ever to sit on the Supreme Court settled down to read in a voice forced...
...Holmes; February 28, "Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children and Adults" by Dr. T. D. Jones; March 6, "The White House Conference and Oral Hygiene" by Dr. L. M. S. Miner; March 13, "Asthma, Hay Fover, and Allied Conditions" by Dr. F. M. Rackemann '09; March 20, "Back Ache, Lumbago, and Sacro-iliac Troubles" by Dr. M. N. Smith-Peterson...
Last week one of the high-backed black chairs next to Chief Justice Hughes was empty. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 90, was home with an attack of lumbago. Though he later returned to the bench, his absence caused a tremor of apprehension to run through the court. His colleagues had noticed that Mr. Justice Holmes's shoulders were a little more stooped, that his step was a little more feeble, that he sat and rose with a little more difficulty. During this term Mr. Justice Holmes has been more silent, less smiling than usual. Rarely now does he interrupt...
...exhilaration in the White Mountains when the leaves are red and the air sparkling, I should like especially to express my regret that the only dates I am just now able to permit myself are with an osteopath (male), who has undertaken to correct a tendency to senile lumbago...
...Cowes, Calshot were signaling good luck, but the west wind almost tore their signal flags away and when Captain Heard and Ocean Pilot Henry Paul saw how the Solent looked they put into Ryde to wait for better weather. Sir Thomas Lipton, 80, still weak from a cold and lumbago, was not able to see the start but felt well enough to give out to the press the usual expressions of his optimistic sportsmanship...