Word: symptomized
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...this stand: as long as a large part of Cuba wants a government which is wholly inconsistent with American economic domination, a stalemate, or worse, can be the only result. But the interventionists miss the real point, as usual with such simple reactions to complicated problems, they attack the symptom and ignore the disease...
...Tallulah Bankhead. Plot: Miss Baxter inveigles her old lover, now married, into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion. Subplot: is or is not Miss Baxter a dope addict...
...himself commissioned an ensign, leaped pantless from his launch at the battle of Santiago, rounded up 26 dripping Spaniards on the beach, herded them at pistol's point into his chartered steamer and delivered them in person to Admiral Schley.* Nor was this flair for the theatrical a symptom of professional adolescence. In later years, a genius for adventure, he owned a cinema company, promoted aviation, practically leased the Graf Zeppelin for a world flight, and sent Sir Hubert Wilkins to Antarctica to discover Hearstland...
...early experiment of Mr. Stuart, on e can only let it go at that, with the wish that it had not been published. But if it is not, if it really is a legitimate specimen of the contemporary Anglo Irish novel, then one can only regret it as a symptom of the distortion of a singularly original tradition of style, for a long time one of the most distinguished in English, and now apparently reduced to a formula and a trick...
...years of age; has never married nor had a history of pregnancy. She has not, to the knowledge of her family, ever been in close contact with an active case of tuberculosis. When out of school a little over three years and working almost two, the first recognized symptom of tuberculosis appears. She consults a physician within a month, and three or four weeks later the diagnosis of tuberculosis is made. She does not attend a clinic but spends almost six months in a tuberculosis sanatorium or hospital. In about a year after the first recognized symptom of tuberculosis...