Word: sinus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arizona in the spring of 1947, nursing a troublesome sinus on his 20,000-acre ranch near Sonoita, when the call came from George Marshall. Douglas' name had been proposed for the ambassadorship to Great Britain after the death of Ambassador-designate O. Max Gardner. But the Democratic hatchetmen were against him. Harry Truman told George Marshall that the political ramifications of his appointment would be serious. Replied George Marshall: "The political ramifications will be a lot more serious if this Administration appoints an inferior man as Ambassador to Britain at this time." Marshall won his point...
...left foot dragged the ground, he developed a stoop. He suffered from an infected sinus, swollen glands in the neck, continual headaches and stomach cramps. To relieve these pains, his physician gave him a proprietary drug compounded of strychnine and belladonna. It was called Dr. Koester's Antigas Pills...
...plane becomes both too hot and too cold. Disagreeable drafts swirl around his ankles and eyes. The cold air, after being scooped into the plane at 200-300 m.p.h., becomes unpleasantly dry as it warms up. It makes the passenger's eyes smart and aggravates his cold or sinus trouble. If he is a nervous type, he is repelled by all the trapped smells that fill the cabin...
...fanged lightnings of his wit. "The Molehill Men," he calls them. "A radio censor is a man who comes into his office every morning and finds a molehill on his desk. His job is to build that molehill into a mountain before he goes home." It still gets his sinus in an uproar to recall that during the war he was forbidden to refer slightingly to the Ubangi -because, the censors explained, the Ubangi might be holding captive some U.S. airmen, and take offense...
...husband's private plane, Cinemadventuress Veronica Lake smothered it with her mink coat, was forced to appear in furs borrowed from a friend. Frank Sinatra was bedded in Acapulco, Mexico, with intestinal trouble and a high fever. Crooner Dick Haymes went to bed for a week with sinus trouble. Trombonist Jack Teagarden, whose theme song is I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues, was sued for divorce. Errol Flynn, back to Hollywood from Jamaica for the birth of his second wife's second child, had a broken foot (from tennis, he said...