Word: spleening
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Finally, what was once the impish and diverting anti-U. S.-ism of M. Balieff has soured into an apparent U. S.-phobia. Two years ago in Paris, the attack could be seen coming on. Spleen and scorn for les Americains, who had been fools enough to make M. Balieff rich, were explicitly on his lips in Paris. Last week, in Manhattan, they lurked in his innuendo, deadened the jollity that once beamed from his round Cheshire-cat-face...
...hotel situation at Cambridge as in the story of the fat lady in the pullman car; but on the other hand, when they were forced to the inconvenience of leaving town in order merely to spend a few hours of the night, they usually gave vent to their spleen in no uncertain terms...
...shoot out Alpha, Beta, Gamma rays. Dr. Harrison S. Martland, Chief Medical Examiner of Essex County found 95% of these to be Alpha rays. Most of the paint the girls swallowed was eliminated through the intestinal tract; a small but daily accumulating amount was absorbed; deposited in the bones, spleen, liver. While the girls worked, played, slept, the paint shot out its rays. Alpha rays cannot travel very far. In the bones they do not need to. The centre of bone, as everyone knows, is marrow; in this marrow are bloodmaking elements. At first the rays stimulated the blood forming...
Having vented this spleen George Moore lapsed back into his easy chair, grew pensive, and finally reconsidered. Said he, as the intoxication of his play's success wore off, "Of course what I said did not apply to admittedly outstanding writers of today . . . Kipling for instance...
...normal gall bladder to contract and thus empty its contents into the intestinal tract where they are needed to help the body properly assimilate its food. If the gall bladder-a bulbous sack 3 in. long by 1 in. to 1¼ in. in diameter connected with the liver, spleen & pancreas-does not empty its own secretions, not only is food absorption distorted, but gallstones and jaundice are apt to result. By having such secretion available as medicine for their patients (the Northwestern men last week continued their efforts to obtain it in pure & therapeutic form), doctors will be enabled...