Word: spleening
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Travis B. Smythe, 26, Thornton, Tex., oil refinery chemist, found the fumes of boiling benzine "rather pleasant," not realizing that they were attacking his spleen, causing him pernicious anemia, and hemorrhages of his mucous membranes. Blood has been oozing from his mouth, nostrils, intestines, bladder; and his organs for manufacturing new, replacement red blood cells have not been functioning properly. In Baylor Hospital, Dallas, Tex., last week he borrowed blood for the 42nd time in six months. With three arm veins already destroyed by repeated blood transfusions and realizing his futility, he said: "I'd be a quitter...
Then, vociferously rid of spleen, stockholders accepted Senator Marconi's resignation as chairman, elected him president, re-elected their scolded directors, approved the refinancing program-and went home to hearty dinners...
...were jobless during the week previous. (Coal or other strikers are not included in these figures.) Southern Irishmen dwell under a government picturesquely and adroitly named The Irish Free State. They are vexed because it "is not Irish, is not free and is not a state."* They vent their spleen by constantly bedeviling the British Government. Last week the British mint refused to quote prices for minting a new series of Irish Free State coins from which the Irish designers had omitted the head of the King Emperor George V. which appears on all British and Dominion currency. The British...
...every kind of vertebrate-fish, reptile, bird and animal. Domesticated animals acquire it-dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, hogs, cattle. They, like humans, may suffer variously from tuberculosis of the lungs (phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis), of the intestinal tract, lymphatic glands, serous membranes, bones, skin, brain, Fallopian tubes, uterus, spleen. But whether, except in the case of milk-yielding cows, they can transmit tuberculosis to humans is still a moot point in medicine...
Died. Wang Sun Yun, great grandson of the onetime Emperor of Korea, a self-supporting student at Hastings College; at Hastings, Neb., of Banti's disease (an affliction of the liver, spleen, blood...