Word: spleenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier's full style and title. He brandished the ballot and demanded to know through what "pernicious influence" the letters "M. C." (Military Cross) had been omitted after his own name. He threatened to take legal steps under the Canadian Elections Act. Finally he decided to vent his spleen in the following tempestuous campaign outburst...
...pursuers became hopelessly entangled and started fighting among themselves. Scandalized, the Surrey Union Huntsmen rode up and tried to disperse the mongrel pack by a drastic and ungentle plying of whips Their morning had gone simply blotto.* Their tempers were up, and mongrel hides offered a safe issuance for spleen. It did not occur to them that the whelps might belong to anybody...
...unknown sorehead also vents considerable spleen against Professor Copeland. hailing him as the "self-styled sophist of Hollisian haunts," the dyspeptic bard describes one of Professor Copeland's famous readings as follows...
Anemia. Preparations of spleen and bone marrow combined have been used to increase the number of red blood corpuscles in rabbits, dogs, human beings. The treatment was used successfully in cases of secondary anemia, but had no value against pernicious anemia.-Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, University of Wisconsin...
From the University of Chicago, came tidings of additional experiments in transplantation by Doctor Theodore Koppanyi, already mentioned in these columns for his work on transplanting the eye and the spleen...