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...next afternoon, under a broiling Mississippi sun with the temperature at 107, in the forty-fourth round of a prizefight John L. began to vomit. 'Will you draw the fight?' asked his opponent, Jake Kilrain, as they came up to scratch. 'No, you son of a bitch,' said Sullivan, heaving fluidly in the general direction of Jake. 'Stand up and fight!' Jake stood up, and stepped on John's foot with his ⅛-inch spikes, and Sullivan sent him sprawling with a chopping, sledgehammer blow on the jugular vein. John L. went...
...expected ever since the Japanese began to bombard China's big cities-disrupting sanitary systems, interrupting food supplies and turning the cities into armed camps filled with large concentrations of men-by last week was in full swing. Plagues were everywhere rampant, particularly cholera. This cause of black vomit & death was dropping 100 a day in Shanghai's International Settlement alone...
...would sometime present the subject of cat diseases before a group of veterinarians. However, constant association with any species of animal removes many dislikes." Some of the things constant association had taught Dr. Parker: "Very few cats bite or scratch except through fear"; a cat "can throw it [vomit] farther and harder than any other species of domestic animal" ; epilepsy is rather common in kittens ; castration of male kittens" should be done at about six months of age, spaying before the first year; bladder stones are very common in old, neutered toms; cats "rarely, if ever, have rickets, rheumatism, chorea...
...toast to his own red-haired commoner friend, Magda Lupescu, 15-year-old Crown Prince Mihai dropped his champagne glass on the floor. Carol took a running kick at him. Nicholas intervened. A gun, supposedly Nicholas', went off. Queen Marie got a bullet in her middle, began to vomit blood...
Twelve miles from the finish, his feet began to blister. Eleven miles farther on, he was overcome by nausea, stopped twice to vomit. Neither of these mishaps last week seriously inconvenienced Runner John Adelbert Kelley, who regarded them as incidental to an afternoon of sport. The pain of the blisters caused him to hurry into first place. A few minutes after becoming violently sick, a little more than two and a half hours after he had started, he crossed the finish line in last week's Boston A. A. Marathon, winner by a quarter-mile. With feet much...