Word: spleening
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...findings, newspapers revealed as much about themselves as Kinsey did about women. The New York Times had refused to sign the contract required to cover the event, used only a 1,000-word condensation of the A.P.'s summary-and buried that on the book page. With characteristic spleen, the Chicago Tribune reported the news, denounced Kinsey as a "real menace to society...
Unloose thy spleen on oaks and mountain-peaks...
...know the first thing about bucking." No one could say that about Leigh's recently painted range horse (opposite). "Like a bolt of lightning," as Leigh himself describes it, "the wily equine flies into the air with a volcanic suddenness-with a fantastic violence and rabid spleen that defy description...
...coaching and medical supervision work hand in hand," he observes, "there is little likelihood that the athletic will leave college with some disabling permanent scar, trick, knee, or leg paralysis, as a result of sport played for fun. On the other hand, there are graduates who have lost the spleen or one kidney or one eye because of contact sports...
...deeply in debt that he asked the Admiralty for leave. The request was turned down. When Mars was ordered to report for duty at Portsmouth Harbor, he sat down and wrote a letter to his superiors, refusing the command, requesting his retirement and venting all his pent-up spleen. "I do not wish to plague My Lords with a mass of detail mainly repugnant to them," he wrote. "It should be sufficient to say that I have lost faith in the present governmental hierarchy and all that goes with it. Also I have never had any feeling but mistrust...