Word: hernias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a psychologist conducts his researches on animal intelligence by noting how rats run through a maze. If you were a psychologist, and got hold of a race of rats showing high susceptibility to constipation, fallen arches, varicose veins, stomach ulcers, hernia, sagging viscera, poor circulation, crooked and decaying teeth, spinal curvature, sacroiliac trouble, bad tonsils and audible adenoids, you would undoubtedly find this afflicted race much more stupid at maze running than normal, healthy rats. You would conclude that rats with the best biological endowment are the most intelligent rats, and that your afflicted, stupid rat race was headed...
Since George thought it behooved royalty, like deity, to possess unflagging health, Caroline minimized her gout and hernia, wore herself out in a decade by constant attention to his Kingly interests. On her deathbed she advised the sobbing King to marry again, knowing his need for feminine sympathy. "No," he spluttered inconsolably, "I will have mistresses...
...years of Academy prize-giving was Actress Rainer's second successive Oscar in a three-year film career. She won last year's for her portrayal of Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld. Sandy, rough-cut Actor Spencer Tracy, recovering in a Los Angeles hospital from a hernia operation, wept when told he had won. Last year's Oscar to Actor Paul Muni (Louis Pasteur) disappointed many who thought Actor Tracy deserved it for a row of consistently fine jobs (among them: Father Tim in San Francisco, Joe Wilson in Fury). When this year's balloting...
Complaint: While repairing a truck on Mr. Hearst's San Simeon ranch, a "vicious, wild and dangerous ostrich" did knock down Mr. Zelda, stamp upon and trample him so that he was unconscious for three hours and suffered from brain concussion, traumatic hernia, nervous shock...
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy was revealed to have undergone an operation for hernia...