Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stomach or cervical spine; or merely stuck out his tongue as far as he could strain. These are various means of calming hiccoughs. The hiccough results from a spasm of the victim's diaphragm, which suddenly descends and causes the lungs to suck in a draft of. air. The air strikes against the partially closed glottis to cause the characteristic ripping cough. Frequent attacks of hiccoughs may accompany certain nervous and gastric disorders, uremia, peritonitis, etc., and should have a doctor's attention...
...through an orgy of fantasy. A native of Portland, Dent Mowrey, had studied music in Paris, and in dreamy moments had idled over the lle de la Cité, whereon is the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Student Mowrey would enter the felted front doors, would sniff at the dank air, would think he could hear the paint cracking on the pictures. Outdoors, on the grey square, he would crane his head up at the rain-spouts, which old artisans had carved in the appearance of fantastic beasts. They were gargoyles, that seemed to droop their eyes in mischievous lure...
Active Painter Clivette is in attendance at the show, slender wiry, electrical, his hands like names. To illustrate motion, he will balance an umbrella on his goateed chin before a canvas. "After 40 years of tossing knives into the air you learn light and motion," says...
...everyone on the stage proceeds to have a good time. So does everyone in the audience. There is no attempt made at ostentation--absolute lack of fuss or pretense of any kind is one of the show's chief charms We are all so accustomed to the professional air in musical comedy, where the audience is patronized and made to feel it will get its money's worth and no more, that the unstudied informality and zest of "Judy" is refreshing...
...Australia is under six million, the greater proportion being resident in or about the six capital cities. There are six universities, one in each of these cities. The largest is the University of Sydney, the two smallest are the Universities of West Australia and Tasmania. Australians lead an open air life: games are possible the year round. The most popular sports are cricket, tennis and football. In the two former Australia has for many years disputed the world's supremacy...