Word: ulcerous
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...report said that he was suffering from "general debility, weakened heart action, bronchial tuberculosis and stomach trouble, probably a gastric ulcer." His cure was expected in from two to three months...
...their arch-enemy. Against the watchful custodians of the mails, social heresy or political immorality has little chance. The rostrum, too, is carefully safeguarded, as New York learned last year when it tried to hear such public speakers as Mrs. Sanger and Mr. Zero. But there is another ulcer at the heart of the body politic which was only recently discovered. That disease is Art: the diagnosticians are the American Legion and the American Defense Society...
...speech in the Diet, may expect to receive not less than half a dozen challenges from the leaders of the opposition. As the challenger always pays the expenses, the person challenged usually arranges his acceptances in order of the social standing of his adversary, it being considered a bit ulcer to be killed by a former Viscount than by a mere Captain of Hussars. Rival store-keepers now settle their differences with sword and pistol rather than by cutthroat competition. Most important of all, a student who has been "flunked" by his instructor invariably calls...
...Reginald Heber Fitz '64, of 18 Arlington street, Boston, professor emeritus at the Harvard Medical School, died Tuesday evening at the Corey Hill Hospital. The cause of the death was ulcer of the stomach. Dr. Fitz had long been in ill health, and went to the hospital several days ago to undergo an operation. He was seventy years...