Word: spleening
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Mayor Shields was soon embarrassed by the revival of a Federal action against himself & cronies for a Prohibition-time brewery operation. "That shows spleen on the part of the U. S. Government!" he raged. "Obviously it's being done to please John L. Lewis...
...woman died of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a disease which until recently was found only in the remote Bitter Root Valley of Montana and the Snake River Valley of Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The woman's skin was dotted with typical pinpoint hemorrhages, her lungs and kidneys congested, spleen enlarged, liver degenerated, genitalia hemorrhagic. Two other people in the vicinity have died with the same symptoms since June 1, and the panicky Capital immediately implored district and public health officials for advice on how to avoid a devastating disease which is new in the East...
...made in the Abbey. A close-up of Queen Mary weeping they promptly cut out. News of this excision soon spread, and thousands of British cinemaddicts who flocked to the movies were bitterly disappointed to see how little of the Abbey ceremony had been left in. Audiences vented their spleen on the Archbishop by sniggering when he was shown examining the Crown as if to see that none of the stones had been stolen...
Like many another outraged oldster throughout the land, Richmond Pearson Hobson sat up late in Manhattan one night last week discussing the depravity of President Roosevelt's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court. Most of the nation's unofficial denouncers that night were content to vent their spleen in talk, go modestly to bed. But Richmond Pearson Hobson was a professional zealot who, in 30-odd years of windy crusading against alcohol, narcotics and un-Americanism, of drumming up fears of Japanese invasion and Communist infiltration, had never forgotten that he was once...
...rule bears an unfortunate resemblance to a mosquito. It is not a large animal, but after being irritated for a sufficient length of time, the tormented soul would cheerfully attack a lion with his bare hands to provide an outlet for his spleen. The rule, of course, works especial hardship upon the students rooming alone, but its nuisance value is appreciated even by men with several roommates...