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...agonized shin bone makes the patient forget his neuralgia or whatever was hurting him. A reading at that point gauges the severity of the neuralgia, the sores or the itch. By comparing the first day's pain intensity with successive days' recordings, the progress of the complaint can be charted. According to last week's Modern Medicine, Dr. Gluzek (who apparently thinks that all pigs caught under a gate squeal equally loud) has made 16,000 readings, finds his dolorimeter accurate in 97% of the pains measured...
...Cockles and Bob Berra seem quite happy these days and their only complaint is that they don't receive the mail they used to, once upon a time. Bob Ottum with very attractive Mrs. Ottum skirted the crowd last weekend and missed us all. It seems Mrs. Ottum had something in her eye and didn't want to meet anyone. Eyes only for Bob--but better luck next time
Those Irish. In Manhattan, the Smiling Irishman, a German-American used-car dealer, lost a legal battle over trade-name violation to the Laughing Irishman, an Italian-American used-car dealer, launched a fresh complaint against an Irish-American used-car dealer, the Happy Irishman...
...Huddle, 30, dance-hall manager, ex-bouncer, 4-Fer, was holding his own against four soldiers who had tried to take his taxi, when, he swore, another taxi drew up and Colonel Roosevelt stepped out, stopped the fight, told everyone to "scram." Huddle, bruised and breathing hard, filed a complaint with the Army Provost Marshal against the G.I.s, called Roosevelt a "taxi-commando, [who] acted like he was God Almighty...
British reviewers took Kiss the Blood off My Hands seriously. Their main complaint: the last two chapters were pure sensationalism...