Word: stillborns
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...years with but two gleams of light?the dream of a girl he had loved in boyhood, and the memory of a year spent convalescing from illness on an uncle's farm. Unexpectedly the farm was bequeathed to him. With his dull wife and the bitter memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land. He grew ambitious, fiery. Only his timid wife and the want of a son darkened his horizon. The mouselike wife saw, and left him that he might marry the sewing maid on whose youth he looked with lust. That feckless wench gave...
Leprosy (the grey death), according to certain medieval conjecturers, issued in the form of a woman's body with a rat's head from the grave of the stillborn Antichrist; scientists have lately suggested that it is bred from putrid fish. Rising out of the East, it has crept down the centuries, a slow, fatal smoke, eating in secret. When Godfrey de Bouillon rode against the Paladin in the 11th Century, it withered the flesh of his captains under their painted armor, followed their retreating banners into Europe. Contagious, it is never hereditary...
...President said, if he said anything, is not known. He had not applauded the plan for a new World Court proposed by Senator Lodge without consulting him (TIME, May 19). It was generally conceded that the Lodge Court was ready for its political obsequies, if it had not been stillborn. What was needed was a new scion, begotten or adopted with the President's assent, one in whom the party could unite its fondest hopes, one to whom it could Point with Pride in the next campaign...
...sheep), small bodies situated just back of and above the kidneys. It was first isolated several years ago by the late Jokichi Takamine, and has been used for various purposes by physicians, but has never before been injected directly into the heart, except in the case of a stillborn baby recently chronicled in TIME. The effect of the treatment is to contract the blood vessels, especially in the limbs, increase the blood pressure and stimulate the heart. It could not, of course, be used to restore a patient who had died from a long, wasting disease, but in cases...
...more hate and despise the " mob" with whom he fought in France than he can turn his back on his Tory connections. So he goes striding disconsolately down the middle of the road, trying to be tolerant, taking no sides, finding it "all very difficult." His child is stillborn. No link remains between himself and his wife, who betakes herself to rather frenzied merriment with the idlers whom he hates. When he refuses a job as Deputy Director for the South Coast, because he sees the home defense force as no more than an instrument of capitalistic tyranny, Joyce calls...