Word: spleening
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...difficult to identify a body with its whole face bashed in or torn off. . . . The driver is death's favorite target. If the steering wheel holds together it ruptures his liver or spleen so he bleeds to death internally. Or. if the steering wheel breaks off. the matter is settled instantly by the steering column's plunging through his abdomen...
...tutted as the Labor Opposition's spleen erupted all week in hot weather blasts against the National Government...
...Releases. Bitterest spleen was reserved for the Administration's principal pressagent in its fight against power companies-the Federal Trade Commission. Declaring that he was still searching for stronger words, the Institute's Managing Director Bernard Francis Weadock accused the Commission of "fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, dishonesty, downright maliciousness, breach of trust" in its eight-year power probe (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.). Director Weadock is supposed to be the only person who has ploughed through every page of the 73 volumes of the Commission's findings. The five Commissioners he exonerates on the ground that they...
Though it has apparently not been seen on the stage since 1870, it was a great success when first produced in 1696, and continued so during the 18th century. Vanbrugh wrote it, he remarked, to divert the wits of the town "and make them forget their spleen in spite of their wives and taxes...
Recognizing the complications of St. Francis' malaria, however, fills Historian Hartung with greater pride. The malaria was the quartan type and gave the Saint a chill every four days during the last twelve years of his life. No doctor attempted to treat this disease. St. Francis' stomach, spleen and liver were infected, causing him great anguish. He developed those other signs of malignant malaria, dropsy and hemorrhages...