Word: spleenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having vented this spleen George Moore lapsed back into his easy chair, grew pensive, and finally reconsidered. Said he, as the intoxication of his play's success wore off, "Of course what I said did not apply to admittedly outstanding writers of today . . . Kipling for instance...
...normal gall bladder to contract and thus empty its contents into the intestinal tract where they are needed to help the body properly assimilate its food. If the gall bladder-a bulbous sack 3 in. long by 1 in. to 1¼ in. in diameter connected with the liver, spleen & pancreas-does not empty its own secretions, not only is food absorption distorted, but gallstones and jaundice are apt to result. By having such secretion available as medicine for their patients (the Northwestern men last week continued their efforts to obtain it in pure & therapeutic form), doctors will be enabled...
...Bratton calls a "Yes man," and I believe they were in a somewhat better position to know what went on behind the scenes than C. B. Bratton was. Maybe not. The Encyclopaedia Britannica changed its opinion of Mr. Baker; but, as you know, it uses logic and not spleen in arriving at conclusions. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that there was no C. B. Bratton in the Army nor Marine Corps in France, either as an officer or enlisted...
Liver, humblest of meats, is good for anemic patients. Where the bone marrow and spleen do not manufacture sufficient red blood corpuscles to keep a person healthy, he can build himself up on a diet of liver. Liver contains iron in such chemical form that it can be absorbed by the body in the indirect making of the red blood corpuscles. But a diet of a pound of liver a day is necessary. Anemic patients complain: "Doctor, it can't be done. I can't even take liver every day, and certainly not for every meal." The trouble...
Meanwhile most observers recalled with only praise for the murdered Kevin O'Higgins how he had restored police power and the majesty of justice within the Free State?putting down with impartial severity all rebels, many of them his personal friends. The spleen which Kevin O'Higgins engendered by this necessary severity was vented last week very typically by one Father John Dooley of Corpus Christi Church, Manhattan. Said Father Dooley of Kevin O'Higgins...