Word: swollenness
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...delinquent childhood (letter stealing, perversion), had once been fined for improper dealing in narcotics. They whispered that his rue Caumartin office was well-known among women of the Paris demimonde. In Paris Soir a Madame Parisinot told how she had recently called on Dr. Petiot for treatment of a swollen wrist. Like the Bluebeard of the fairy tale (see cut), the Bluebeard of the rue Le Sueur had a magnetic eye. But otherwise, with his lime-stained hands and rough work clothes, he looked like a bricklayer...
...Burmese front: "The crack 18th Japanese division made three frantic attempts to cross the Nambyu River. . . . As the Japs poured into the stream in the cold light of the jungle winter moon the Americans mowed them down with machine-gun and rifle fire. At daybreak the river was swollen with 300 to 500 Jap bodies. Merrill lost seven killed, 37 wounded...
...Reason: they get about $1 (800%) more a gal. Last month Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley tried to force Cuban producers back into the molasses and industrial-alcohol business by limiting the amount of potable alcohol the U.S. would import in 1944 to 14,300,000 gal.-the already swollen 1943 level. At least in principle, FEA agreed to apply the same pressure to the rest of the Caribbean...
...Germans have been driven out and the Allies have come in, when the fascists are out of office but the civilian governments have not yet been set up, and when the high aims for which the war was fought disappear before the realities of incompetence, brutality, red tape, swollen eyes, dead bodies, ruined buildings, ruined lives, cynicism, contempt, and the starved inertia of purposeless living...
Young (42), handsome "Stu" Symington is no airy altruist. The $898,700 net income his company reported last fortnight (for the year ended Sept. 30) was a picayune residue of the company's swollen gross sales of $83,207,000-but it was much more than Emerson had ever made in any of its 53 years (Symington took over its management in 1938). And Manufacturer Symington was still being sturdily realistic when he declared: "To us one of the great dangers to our system ... is the picture of some people trying to build their companies from scratch...