Word: organisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Infection is the essential cause of appendicitis. The appendix is a taggle to the intestines, on the right side of the abdomen. It doubtless is the remnant of some organ useful to a primitive creature from which man evolved. But what that use was, anatomists have never agreed. It has no known use to present man. and it is often a nuisance. Feces, seeds, fruit stones, other digestive debris may pack into the appendix, set up an inflammation. Or the inflammation may represent an infection which originated in some distant part of the body...
...Pistol at Our Heads." Ramsay MacDonald said the same thing, so did the U. S. State Department. But the Daily Herald, official organ of the British Labor Party, would have none of it. It quoted Laborite Ernest Thurtle, former Junior Lord of the Treasury...
...stop entirely fortnight ago when the bank raised its discount rate to 4½%. British bankers well knew that France still had credits of over $630,000,000 in Great Britain. If she wanted to, France could draw out every bar of gold in the bank. The Daily Herald, organ of the Labor Government, minced no words: "We are in the presence of a deliberate and considered attempt on the part of certain French interests to break down British credit on the continent...
...Some husbands who themselves compose or play: Manhattan's Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker ("Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?"); Board Chairman Charles Michael Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Corp. (violin, organ) ; Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes ("Melody in A Major"); President William Hartman Woodin of American Car & Foundry ("Raggedy Ann's Sunny Songs"); Professor Albert Einstein (violin). Banker James Paul Warburg (pseudonym, Paul James) writes lyrics to the jazz tunes of his wife, Kay Swift, whose "Fine & Dandy" was a Broadway smash hit last autumn...
Smarter than Jew Fagin who taught young Oliver Twist to steal, one Clarence Warren, 33, Chicago "tourist," taught a Macaque monkey (the small sort which organ grinders use to collect coins) to pick up and hide small odds & ends from store counters. Clarence Warren named his monkey Clarence. Clarence Macaque and Clarence Warren have been visiting Chicago Woolworth and Kresge stores where well-taught Clarence Macaque shoplifted while the clerks giggled. Last week both Clarences were arrested, jailed...