Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone knows the hideous aspects of erysipelas. From a tiny red blotch at the nose or on the cheek near an eye, an angry red spreads out into a wide, fiery stain. The skin tingles. It burns. When the stain reaches the spongy cheek or lip tissues, these swell into a horrible, puffy, burning mass. Sometimes the disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations...
Unfortunately this strike did not have the backing of any established union. Therefore the question of funds is vital and grows more so as the ranks swell. Money is coming in in contributions of all sizes from unions, organizations and individuals all over the country. By means of this each family is given $5 to $10 a week in food and clothing through the relief stores. This pittance is barely enough to keep them alive but their spirit is indomitable. The ranks realize that this struggle means either life or death to them and after eight weeks they show...
...picture the same group ten years from now. The Browning Club of Cherokee Falls will be addressed this afternoon by Mr. Blank, the young American poet, who will take as his subject "Browning's Effect on Me". The one with the lorgnette will have another just like it and swell with emotion at intervals of ten seconds by the wrist watch her husband, gave her as a peace offering the last time he came back from a short business trip to New York and preferred blindes. The insignificant from--will hurry to tell Mr. Blank how she had read...
...soar above the farmlands, circle and behold the cities like great wens on the face of nature, swoop up and over the mountains, dallying if you like on the long downward slant to peer off east to the continent's end and the long Atlantic ground swell. Last week a boy of 14, Farnan Parker of Anderson, Ind., stepped into his plane and flew from his home to Philadelphia. He took his time, stopping twice en route, arriving in 18 hours. His mother, an accomplished aviatrix, was following him by train. He was more or less waiting...
Ensconced at a table in Jakey Wirth's swell beer saloon they were partaking of hohn kukken and tongue blood pudding...