Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago a report went around that Jerome Weidman's two novels, I Can Get It For You Wholesale and What's In It For Me?, were being withdrawn from circulation. The circumstances were unusual. Reviewers had praised them, ranked Weidman with such sourball writers as John O'Hara, James M. Cain, Hemingway. But Weidman's Semitic hero was such a heel that he roused antiSemitism. Author Weidman, and many a reader, regarded his villainous Harry Bogen as a deliberately horrible example. Publishers Simon & Schuster denied the report, announced that they were selling 100 copies...
...British and French Governments would normally regard the date of Spain's victory parade as El Caudillo's own private little matter. But long ago Dictator Benito Mussolini solemnly promised British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Italian soldiers would be withdrawn from Spain as soon as the war was over. When the last Loyalist citadel was captured, the British waited a discreet time, then reminded II Duce of his sworn word...
...blood corpuscles. It collects in the swollen abdomens of persons suffering from dropsy, a condition resulting from cirrhosis of the liver or certain types of heart disease. To relieve pain the patient's abdomen is tapped, and the fluid drained out. Often as much as 410 ounces is withdrawn, and the patient is glad...
...that Spain would not sign the anti-Comintern Pact. Failing that, France had sent her most distinguished soldier, Marshal Philippe Petain, as Ambassador to Burgos to deal gently and well with the Spanish soldier-dictator. Moreover, the Spanish War was now over and not only had II Duce not withdrawn his troops from Spain (as he so many times promised), but there were rumors in Paris and London that more had been recently landed...
...wrap a chicken they now stretch a latex bag over the top of a hollow metal cylinder. From the bottom air is withdrawn, sucking the bag in, until it forms a neat lining on the cylinder's walls. The chicken is popped in, air is exhausted from the bag, its mouth is closed. Then as the bag is dipped in warm water, it shrinks to fit skin-tight and almost invisible around the chicken...