Word: navels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appendicitis should be suspected if a person, especially one under 30, has a sharp pain and a tender spot a few inches to the right of and a little below his navel; if he has fever and a furred tongue...
...kinds) to the works of Shakespeare. In the Shan States he admired the women's dress: short coat, kilt, leggings, with a gap between coat and kilt. Says he: "I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham met an outlandish character, was often made confidant of an outlandish story. In the teak forests of Siam he met a Frenchman, a gross fellow, who boasted of his recent prowess in venery, then seeing a copy of Verlaine's poems...