Word: sinusitis
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recuperating from sinus trouble in Florida with his fiancee Ethel du Pont; three of the lesser grandchildren. -John Adams in 1793, George Clinton in 1809 Daniel...
...were they the only family members at the White House. Only members absent were Daughter Anna, now living in Seattle with her husband John Boettiger, newly chosen to run William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer; Son Franklin Jr., lying in a Boston hospital with streptococcus and sinus trouble; Franklin Jr.'s fiancee Ethel du Pont, and one grandchild. William Donner Roosevelt, son of Elliott's first wife. But all the rest of the family were present, including Son Elliott's five-month-old Elliott Jr. and Son James's captivating Kate, ten months...
Last month Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who loves few things better than a big family feast, gave up Thanksgiving dinner at Hyde Park to rush to Boston where Son Franklin Jr. lay abed with what was described to the press as "sinus trouble." The young man did have infected sinuses, and he was in the capable, Republican hands of Dr. George Loring Tobey Jr., a fashionable and crackerjack Boston ear, nose & throat specialist. He also had a graver affliction, septic sore throat, and there was danger that the Streptococcus haemolyticus might get into his blood stream. Once there the germs...
...White House dance in honor of the President's next prospective daughter-in-law, Ethel du Pont, was scheduled for the day after Christmas, then unscheduled and left dangling because her fiance, Franklin Jr., lay in Massachusetts General Hospital waiting an operation for an acute sinus infection...
Anyone subject to a running nose and swollen sinuses is further subject to rhinological indecision. One school of nose specialists insists on operating on sinuses. Another school, knowing that once a nasal sinus is entered surgically it usually requires long and tedious attention, condemns operations, advises other treatment...