Word: swollenness
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While the city sleeps, the cops play pinochle in the assembly room and gangsters croak a jeweler on East 37th Street, Manhattan. On the trail of "Mile-Away" Healey, undertaker, suspected murderer, gang-leader, move the swollen feet of Detective Chancy. His face, which successfully suggests the face of an experienced bloodhound, looks through the window of a lunchroom wherein Mile-Away is quarreling with a recent mistress; the same face pushes out of a coffin in Mile-Away's funeral parlors and later appears suddenly in a dark corner of a fur store which Mile-Away...
...Admiral's flag. The Mayor, who is the first woman to hold the position, wore the scarlet mink-trimmed robe of her office, a tricornered black beaver hat, an official 16th-Century gold chain. She was accompanied by her daughter, honorary Mayoress, and was suffering from a swollen nose, the result of a slip on the ship's deck. After a one-week tour of the U. S., they returned on the Leviathan...
...afloat for 54 hours, 28 minutes. Then she collapsed, sank in three feet of water, and two men grabbed her out of the pool. She had swum for a longer time than any man or woman in the history of the world. Her legs and arms were swollen, her skin very tender...
Septic Sore Throat. In ten days, an epidemic of septic sore throat has killed 26 people in Lee, Mass. Of the remaining 4,000 population, more than 400 lay in fevered agony, last week, unable to swallow; their glands hard and swollen; their heads hammering with constant pain. Doctors, nurses, supplies were rushed...
Babies come crying into the world. They cry for air but in many cases the tears are gummy with pus, the little eyelids swollen and glued together. "Babies sore eyes" (ophthalmia neonatorum) is a common complaint. Gonorrhoeal infection is almost always the cause; contracted from the mother, or in an occasional instance from infected hands or articles. Total blindness is often the result, how often is indicated by the 25% of all blindness in children ascribed to it. This dark, tragic disease may be entirely prevented by therapy during pregnancy; may even be entirely cured, after having been contracted...