Word: vitus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, he has eaten many a breakfast at the White House but rarely rises to defend Herbert Hoover from partisan attack. Privately criticized for failing to back up his chief, he was once reported to have snorted: ''How can you stand behind a man with St. Vitus's dance? A G. O. Politician to the core, he is forever busy with local matters-jobs for the faithful, greater use of Indiana limestone in public buildings, retention of the post office name at Santa Claus...
...Named for Vitus Jonassen Bering (1681-1741), Danish navigator, ancestor of Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring, 63, able Des Moines diagnostician, "dean of Iowa physicians," much sought dinner guest, skilled croquet-player, recently a nominee for the presidency of the American Medical Association...
...Author. Newton Booth Tarkington (no A. B., but honorary A. M. Princeton, 1899; Litt.D. Princeton, 1918; Litt.D. De Pauw, 1923; Litt.D. Columbia, 1924) was born in Indianapolis, Ind. in 1869, owes much to Middle Western authors William Dean Howells. Mark Twain. As a boy he had St. Vitus-like nervous disorders; improved, went to college at Princeton. He returned to live in Indiana, started out as an illustrator. Failing at that he wrote for eight years: his gross returns were $22.50. The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) gave him his start. Penrod (1914) kept him going strong...
...germs. For every germ there is a maximum temperature above which it cannot live. Experimentally, doctors are trying to raise body temperature above the germ-death heat by injecting fever-causing germs or nonspecific proteins, or by electricity. Dr. Sutton, having noted her patient's recovery from St. Vitus's Dance after a poison-produced fever, took a chance on another St. Vitus child by injecting typhoid serum. This second case grew feverish, sweated, recovered. She tried typhoid-paratyphoid serum on another. He too sweated and recovered. When she had cured 24 children of ugly St. Vitus...
...With Christian rites St. Vitus, a child, drove demons from a son of the pagan Roman Emperor Diocletian (284-305). Nonetheless, Diocletian had St. Vitus tossed into a kettle of boiling oil because he would not recant his Christianity. St. Vitus miraculously escaped from the oil, but died soon after from that and other tortures...