Word: sinus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year Mrs. Roosevelt may have crossed her fingers. Thus far there has been no sign of chickenpox or tonsillitis (Sister & Buzzie Dall, 1932), sinus (Franklin Jr. 1936) or other ill hap. On hand will be still-ailing Harry Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, and his bright-eyed, motherless daughter, Diana, 7. And last to open her stocking-by custom-will be the President's 85-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, still the belle of the Hudson Valley...
...occasionally both. The slightest stimulus on certain "trigger areas" of the face may set off lightning-like flashes of agony. Living in dreadful anticipation of the next attack, victims sometimes go weeks without shaving or washing their faces. Cause of tic douloureux is not definitely known. Tooth and sinus infections, circulatory disorders, sudden changes of climate have all been suspected...
Coach Gordon "Scotty" Little was considerably pessimistic about his team's chances against a Harvard squad which stands undefeated in two years of dual meet competition. The Cornell squad, moreover, will be handicapped by the loss of Co-Captain Bill Luke, who is suffering from sinus. Luke, veteran in the sprints and free style, was expected to be a sparkplug for the Red. Mel Blessing, backstroker, will also be missing because of illness...
Answering a query from Dr. Robert N. Coats of Weiser, Idaho, who has a patient claiming sinus and ear trouble as the result of exposure to tear gas, the Journal pontificated: "It is reasonable to believe that enough irritation of the eyes or throat may be produced by tear gases to pave the way for secondary bacterial invasion, with ensuing pharyngitis and conjunctivitis on occasion. The possibility of the production of sinusitis and otitis media secondary to irritation by chloroacetophenone [commonest tear gas] is not at all fantastic. Chloroacetophenone is not the practically harmless substance it is commonly reputed...
...Franklin Jr. after five weeks in Florida recuperating from sinus infection which invalided him last November, returned to the White House cured, bringing his fiancée Ethel du Pont. No sooner had they arrived than Fiancée Ethel came down with acute appendicitis. The Roosevelts, after telephoning her family in Wilmington, called a naval ambulance, shot her into Emergency Hospital a block from the White House where she was successfully operated on by Commander Morton Willcutts...