Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to scrawl about the coming of death: "Angina? Pseudo? Raising right hand over head ... hot water . . . relief. Angina . . . pain returning three to five minutes . . . gradual and gradual letup...
...Pseudo-hermaphrodites are much more frequent than true ones. In them the glands are of a sex opposite from the person's general character and configuration. The genitalia may be a confusion of imperfect male & female parts. These defects may sometimes be remedied by surgeons to bring the pseudohermaphrodite into line with its glandular sex. In no case on record, though, has the patient subsequently succeeded in producing a child. In glandular males, undescended testicles are brought from the abdomen into the scrotum. If a phallus exists, bound down by adhesions or imbedded in flesh, delicate plastic work...
...female (ovarian) pseudo-hermaphrodites, after removal of the male-like appendages, the usual problem is to correct the vagina if it is rudimentary, or to create one if it is missing. The late Dr. L. Grant Baldwin of Columbus, Ohio, solved this difficult problem by cutting a channel into the pelvis, lining it with a narrow U-shaped loop of the patient's own intestine. After some time the inner loop of the U was removed, leaving the outer wall to form a mucous membranal tract resembling the normal vagina...
Readers whom pseudo-scientific thrillers make mad should not attempt Odd John. Those who like Jules Verne, Rider Haggard, the early H. G. Wells, may safely...
...said to the customs inspector: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Ace Photographer Sarony posed him in his lank locks, fur-trimmed coat and velvet knee-breeches. Society's biggest fish held aloof, but smaller fry came flocking. Skeptical Broadwayites made the first of several pseudo-hospitable attempts to drink Oscar under the table- in vain. Columnists and cartoonists ribbed him unmercifully. But his first lecture (all of them were on Beauty) grossed $1,000. In Boston 60 Harvard boys marched in to his lecture dressed in caricature esthetic attire; Oscar, forewarned, had the laugh on them...