Word: phthisic
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...taboo source. Thus the Picasso from whom one can properly take ideas is the cubist who emerged after 1906. Kitaj, on the other hand, devotes a number of his drawings to making strange pasiches of immature Picasso, the artist of the blue period, with his wistful clowns and phthisic women. Kitaj's three Bathers, with their iridescent blooms of pastel and general air of tentative anxiety, pay homage to the blue period. But they stare from the paper with the look of rough creatures trapped in an alien element, refugees from Goya and Velásquez as well...
After several weeks of stalking the proper sello (rubber stamp) through the corridors of the Buenos Aires customs house, Zoologist Gerald Durrell was feeling (as his brother, the logodaedalist novelist Lawrence Durrell, might have put it) both phthisic and etiolated. But before long Durrell was again at peace, sleeping under his Land Rover, tormenting a 20-ft.-long bull sea elephant into a cinema-genic rage, using his own big toe as bait to lure a rare vampire bat. The author is a zoophile who tired several years ago of catching animals for other people and, as he related...
...Phthisic on the Farm. The telephone has done more than diplomats, clergymen or scientists to knit the world together. Taken for granted by kings and butchers alike, it is an indispensable companion that serves without favor or prejudice. It has reached into every civilized corner of the world-and often brought civilization with it. From its wires spring the words of history in the making, the chatter of daily life. English Novelist Arnold Bennett called it "the proudest and the most poetical achievement of the American people...
...Herman, Neb. the three operators of the tiny Herman Telephone Co. (386 subscribers) spent much of the day answering such questions as: "Who's got a good price on eggs today?" "How far is it to the Smith farm?" and "How do you spell phthisic...
...Sheldon's idea goes back as far as Hippocrates, who classified physiques into two types: phthisic habhus (long and thin) and apoplectic habitus (short and thick...