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  • Chaplin plays both a Jewish barber and a comicallyparanoid and ruthless dictator called Adenoid Hynkel; riffing onMark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, each man is mistaken forthe other.

    The Great Dictator: No 22 Phelim O 2010

  • Why were Prevelant ze Gaute, unt Docker Adenoid getting so friendly?

    In His Own Write John Lennon 2000

  • Each morning Lord Blatherard Osmo must put on his bowler, and take his briefcase out to the Adenoid to make his daily d'marche.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • The situation is now stable, the Adenoid occupies all of St. James's, the historic buildings are no more, Government offices have been relocated, but so dispersed that communication among them is highly uncertain-postmen are being snatched off of their rounds by stiff-pimpled Adenoid tentacles of fluorescent beige, telegraph wires are apt to go down at any whim of the Adenoid.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Friends and detractors alike think of him as "the Adenoid."

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Though he was able to develop a pidgin by which he and the Adenoid could communicate, unfortunately he wasn't nasally equipped to make the sounds too well, and it got to be an awful chore.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Pirate/Osmo's mission is to establish liaison with the Adenoid.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Adenoid growths appear as grape-like lymphoid formations located in the upper and posterior-nasal pharynx.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • Adenoid growths, which contribute to the nervousness of a naturally nervous child, should be removed.

    The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

  • Adenoid children are, as a rule, in better health during the warm, equable, summer weather than during the changeable, uncertain weather we have in the winter months.

    The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

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