Word: phlegm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...written by a German woman of 65 ; 2) depending little on suspense, it has a sympathetic main character in an excitable Italian doctor on trial for murdering his cancer-stricken wife out of pity; 3) the doctor's vivacity is opposed, humorously, psychologically, to Teutonic judicial phlegm...
...sake of the novel, Skippy s friends and relatives had to be given last names. So his mother is Mrs. Skinner and some of the others are collar buttons, Hecky (personification of juvenile persistence), Sooky (pathetic phlegm), Carol Sharon (Skippy's girl), Milkman Lovering. The place they live in is called Morrisville. The plot is Skippy's show, BULL RUN (admission by collar buttons), his troubles at school, his baseball team, his blood-curdling threats and how he loves Carol Sharon...
Characteristics: Modesty, taciturnity, diffidence (women make him blush), singleness of purpose, courage, occasional curtness, phlegm. Elinor Glyn avers he lacks...
...usually in the springtime, affect the pituitary gland. This is an endocrine gland the size of a big pea, located underneath the cerebrum and on about a line with the bridge of the nose. Formerly medicos supposed that it secreted the mucus of the nose. (In Latin pituita means phlegm.) Actually it controls the growth of the bones of body?those of the arms and legs. When it is pathologically oversize, it makes giants of the diseased persons; when undersize it dwarfs them. Irritated temporarily by springtime disease, it, in good theory, makes the sick child grow like a weed...