Word: sinusitis
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While an ardent defender of the old American game, I will admit that I still bear a slight scar on my face from finger nails used under water and unseen by the referee, and I also admit to having sinus trouble ten years after the old game fell into disrepute...
Vitamins. Dr. Elmer Verner McColhtm, Johns Hopkins chemical hygienist. observed that the nose of a person who lacks sufficient Vitamin A runs just as it runs from common colds and in sinus trouble. There may be a direct relationship between this vitamin and such rhinitis...
There was an epidemic of sinus trouble at Princeton last year. Almost all veteran water poloists have had their eardrums punctured at some time. Occasionally the eardrum fails to heal quickly and pus runs out of it. Mastoid may result. Suggested objectors: the Intercollegiate Swimming Association refused to alter its rule about the Old American Game because oldtime officials of the Association like to play it themselves in the New York Athletic Club, would hate to see it become outmoded...
Died. John J. ("Jack") Donahue, 38, famed musicomedian and hoofer (Sunny, Rosalie, Sons o'Guns), magazine fictioneer (Letters of a Hoofer to his Ma), producer (Lost Sheep); after a chronic infection of the kidneys, sinus, heart had caused his collapse while playing Cincinnati in Sons o' Gum; at his home in Manhattan. Born in Charlestown, Mass., he began his theatrical career at 14 by appearing in local amateur nights. Subsequently medicine show entertainer, smalltime vaudeville dancer, he had his first big success in Sunny (1925). Despite the pain in his legs and feet, occasioned by the illness from which...
...Publisher Byoir has a hobby it is his bothersome sinus, which has undergone 14 operations, must undergo no more. No hypochondriac, he takes a lively interest in his sinus, priding himself as an authority. He has even been known to drain his own sphenoid cavity, an intricate and highly painful process. Among his prized possessions is a photograph made of him by his friend Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, onetime associate editor of Munscy's, editorial writer on the New York Sun. Inscribed Photog- rapher Davis: "It isn't a masterpiece, but then neither is Byoir...