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...Hopkins Hospital suffered not only kidney damage but brain injury from sulfathiazole; two majors in the Army Medical Corps last winter stated that seven out of 38 patients had kidney complications after sulfadiazine. Some of the danger signals are: headache, body ache, low urine output, high temperature, yellowish eyeballs, pallor and rash...
...Prisoners. Next day six German officers paced the wet, misty quarter-deck while armed guards stood by. All six were over 5 ft. 8, sturdily built, healthy-looking without any trace of the fatigue or pallor that comes from malnutrition or too lengthy duty on submarines. The U-boat's captain had been killed, so the executive officer had become their commander. He marched first in line on their daily turns around the quarterdeck. Whatever the leader did, the rest did. When they halted in the lee of a gun shelter to light cigarets, he got the first match...
Bannon becomes suspicious of a Danish square-rigger, Den Magre Kvind. His suspicions mount when the Daniel finds, in an open boat, three slaughtered Danes whom Holger mourns too loudly and whom Conrad deduces, from their pallor and their oily hands, to be U-boat engineers executed for a breach of discipline. The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for Halifax with a cargo of rum. But Bannon notices that the shell wounds were made with...
...bartering Britain arms in exchange for other valuable considerations (as was done in the destroyer deal), 3) of loans to Britain. Of the alternatives, the last was the most likely. If so, the President didn't let it worry him. He was looking better-his grey pallor of Armistice Day had given way to a healthier tone...
Aside from a somewhat lavender pallor of cheek which no doctor could remove, Wescott's fresh start is clean and real. It also shows that for some young writers their expatriate decade was not wasted...