Word: whitlow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time that free trade was being butchered. Last week, on the day after he broke Britain's big navy news, the Prime Minister's eyes began to weaken. His fashionable Physician Thomas Jeeves Horder, Baron Horder of Ashford. first attended to a minor ailment, a hard, pusfilled whitlow on the Prime Minister's finger. When this had been lanced and half a fingernail removed, Lord Horder insisted on going thoroughly over his patient. The eyes were indeed weak; general condition, rundown. Meekly James Ramsay MacDonald assented when Lord Horder told him he must positively quit London...
...Conductor Ernest Schelling was rehearsing his "Impressions From An Artist's Life" with the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. He banged his thumb on the keys, had to stop playing. On his thumb appeared a felon which turned into a prolonged infection. An ordinary felon (whitlow) is a skin or bone inflammation which usually lasts about three weeks. So long as the felon was "engaged in his employment, or maturing his felonious little plans," Pianist Schelling could play no solos. He could, however, and did, conduct the Saturday Philharmonic concerts for children, to whom...