Word: swollenness
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Long lines of green monsters with swollen heads symbolized the Brain Trust. They were dropping gold into troughs at which silk-hatted pigs were feeding. At the lower left Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was strangling the Goddess Ceres. Behind him a tax collector was removing a citizen's shirt. In the centre sat Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau?a clown juggling money with a lap full of gold bricks. General Hugh S. Johnson was jumping irascibly on the roped figure of Industry. Also to be seen were Madam Secretary Perkins, Postmaster General Farley, Uncle Sam on a cross, dying cattle...
...position to unleash the poison which would end the fight. On the fourth day the spider tore loose, but it cost her one leg, part of another. Spectators raised the odds to 20-to-1. Like a Gulliver bound with Lilliputian strands, the scorpion struggled until its forelegs were swollen and paralyzed. Finally in a burst of desperate frenzy it freed its stinger from the silken web, got within an inch of the terrified spider when City Prosecutor John K. Hull stepped forward, chloroformed both spider and scorpion...
...five passed into their second week and approached full term condition, their chances for life became surer. All cried lustily, a good sign. Whispered the mother of the phenomenon, as her swollen legs subsided: ". . . Suis contente. ... If they die, they will go to Heaven, and next year perhaps, we will have another." In the next room waited lactating neighbors to give drachms of their superabundant milk to the quintuplets...
...dark basement, found hysterical Mrs. Lytle and silent Mr. Lytle writhing on a heap of ashes. Screamed Mrs. Lytle: "He forced me to come down here and then he grabbed me. He's got me by the hand and he won't let go!" Police found her swollen fingers twisted in her husband's necktie, her husband dead from strangulation, a butcher knife and a poker nearby...
...south of Kokadjo, Nurse Eleanor Hamilton got word from another trapper in mid-November that Allen's hand was mighty bad. Snow had not yet shut Kokadjo in for the winter. Nurse Hamilton found the lean, grey trapper still up & around, but his hand was swollen like a puffball and he felt chilly and feverish. She bathed his hand, gave him some pills and something hot to drink. She came back off & on for two weeks but by then Trapper Macdougall was so much worse that she got a neighbor with an automobile to drive him into Greenville...