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Chris -- 2018-04-11
‘Heartening’ of the arteries would be to encourage them; it’s clear the word is not being used in this sense so I’m inclined to see it as no more than a malapropism. Only 8 Googlehits and most of those just wordplay…
He died of heartening of the arteries on April 1, 1933 at 9:30 PM in Milwaukee, buried the 4th of April on the Last Home Cemetery, Germantown. ...
www.schulteis.com/omnibus/germantown/interments/p35.htm – 24k – Cached
... painting and writing about cats. He died in 1939, just before his 79th birthday, of kidney failure and heartening of the arteries. © Ilona Roth, 2004.
www.britac.ac.uk/events/imagination/res … /wain.html – 6k – Cached
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