Word: spleening
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Another petition sponsored by the National Student League is making the rounds. The most recent target for the plentiful spleen of that belligerent organization is the appointment of Professor Corrado Gini to the Sociology Department...
Last week, fresh from the operating room and Death's disappointment, he shed his wan wonder-look upon the Philadelphia assembly. Surgeon Behrend showed moving pictures of the operation which relieved Marvin Goodman of his trouble some spleen...
...deprived of wonder-glow, however, were the doctors in Philadelphia. Dr. Moses Behrend, president of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, presented them a sample convalescent, anemic Marvin Goodman, 17, whose vastly enlarged spleen he had recently taken...
...spleen, lying just under the lowest left rib, is a kind of junkman of the blood stream. It collects worn-out blood cells, breaks them up and sends the debris to the liver. Marvin Goodman's spleen, ten times oversize, destroyed his red blood cells with mad indiscrimination. As a result, he became anemic. His skin turned yellow, then green. His weight fell from 150 lb. to 90 lb. in six months. He obviously was dying of hemolytic jaundice...
...play Moliere vents his spleen upon the medical profession with pungent humor. Prominent among the features promises to be a song by a quack physician, sung by Eli Boynton '35. Four doctors will trip a ballet to music by Lulli, an exhibition of Terpsichorean art in which Louis XIV himself took part in the original performance...