Word: worming
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...smoke in doors, entertain his friends or go out for an evening of poker. He even smiles indulgently when Mrs. Craig runs his aunt out of the house, insults a friendly grand mother who lives next door and drives the servants into giving notice. It is a long worm which has no turning. Walter Craig's rebellion starts when an accident makes it unmistakably clear that his wife would rather see him accused of murder than let herself be touched by a scandal. When it is over. Harriet seems unlikely to recover from her pain at the discovery that...
...familiar with malignant changes taking place in lesions produced by germs, particularly syphilitic lesions in the mouth and in tuberculosis of the skin. In the Rockefeller Institute Laboratory we have seen the production of cancer of the stomach following experimental infection by a nematode, that is, a kind of worm, and malignant changes in the liver associated with tapeworm cysts...
...next war, let's hope the conquerors will practice the lessons of the last. Imagine the silliness of it anyway, when you've just beaten a homicidal maniac who hates you, letting him loose to find a new blunderbuss. Any man with the brains God gave the glow-worm would know enough to disarm him completely, throw him naked into a jail, and keep a close watch on the implements coming to him with his necessaries of life...
Rockefeller Center, employing hundreds of elevator boys, had no labor trouble at all during the recent strikes. Naturally any man with the brain-power of a glow-worm, with the heart of a dead beetle, or with te liberalism of a hard- shelled clam, will want to know the reason for the servile degeneracy of the Center masses. Have they upside-down stomachs, weak knees, brains like boiled cauliflowers, or no guts at all? Or perhaps the trouble is not physical, but moral and spiritual...
...Francisco doctor and his wife last month ate some underdone steaks from a northern California bear which had chewed a hog which had gobbled a rat which had gnawed at a hog whose flesh contained larvae of a tiny round worm called Trichinella spiralis. In consequence of that series of meals, the doctor and his wife, their tongues, larynges, eyes, flanks and diaphragms thickly infested with larvae of the worms, last week were undergoing the excruciating anguish of trichinosis...