Word: spleening
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...nightmares that haunt an able surgeon, none is worse than his fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...
...arms to the assassins, and two men. All Europe exploded in a few days of mutual recrimination. Because the murder weapons were German made. French police tried to blame the Nazis. Jugoslav crowds hurled insults at Italian consulates. Orthodox Serbians pelted Roman Catholic churches with stones, then switched their spleen to Hungary which had given shelter to Ustashi. A dozen chancelleries grew worried. Press attacks suddenly ceased. Jugoslavia, too. was calm. It might be the heavy silence before the hurricane, but for the time being even the angry attacks against Italy ceased. Jugoslavia, like all Europe, was waiting...
...many imps of spleen and spite have ever gotten under the armored skin of President von Hindenburg. But once a little clubfoot in his Nazi newsorgan taunted Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg with age, attacked him under the headline IS VON HINDENBURG STILL ALIVE?, charged without a scrap of evidence that "his advisers are Jews and Marxists." That was in 1930. The President, stung to rage as never before, brought suit and was awarded 800 marks ($185) for defamation from the imp who is now Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Last week by a supreme...
...stonily through a great squirting of spleen at the Prime Minister by an old friend who left the Labor Party to follow Scot MacDonald but is now the bitterest foe of his National Government. Fired to fury by the repeal of the land tax which he as Chancellor of the Exchequer riveted on England's great hereditary landlords, self-made and landless Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw sneered at the Prime Minister: "Once he gave me assurance in a tearful voice that the land tax would be maintained. That was at the time he was begging me not to resign...
Chafing with spleen General Göring filled in a leisure moment by usurping for himself the highly aristocratic post of Master of the Hunt in Prussia. "We must eliminate the vulgar 'meat hunter' in favor of the true German sportsman," cried Master GÖring. "Ample wild life must be maintained to preserve the German animal world as the living soul of the Fatherland...