Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wiglike perfection to its yellow tonsure. Its puffy hands make pawing gestures. Upon its gentle mouth is an infantine wetness. The staring eyes are china-blue and someone has dressed up this prodigious toy in a swaying, broadtailed coat, canary waistcoat, blue velvet tie, patent leather shoes. Its breath is stertorous, mechanical; its tread is elephantine; its vocal chords match its tread?for this doll can talk?and bawl? and bellow. It looks and talks like one of the footmen from Alice in Wonderland...
Astrology. Hardly to be mentioned in the same breath with the above phenomena is the science of astrology, famed father of astronomy. Whether or not one believes in the influence of stars on human destiny, there is no denying that reputable astrologists go about their work with the precision of a mathematician. In New York State, for example, the practice of astrology has been legalized on a par with medicine and law. And last week in Ohio the State Supreme Court upheld licensed astrologers, but in a rather backhanded way. It grouped astrologers with other fortune-tellers under the definition...
...with one daring student on the first floor. Hearing strange noises in the study he picked up a bedroom slipper and clad in his pink pajamas ventured from the sanctity of his Doudoir. He came fact to face with a slim, dark, foreign man with a strong breath and an unsteady gait. The latter said he was looking for the man in the suite next door whose available cash he had just appropriated. The youth in the pajamas was not to be fooled however. When he lifted his bedroom slipper threateningly, the mysterious marauder ran out of the room, narrowly...
...these: that "every man is free to embrace the religion he shall believe true," or that "it is possible to be equally pleasing to God" in the Protestant as in the Catholic Church. The modern world might have stood in open mouthed surprise at these condemnations had not its breath been taken away by the last sentence of the Syllabus in which all were anathematized who had the temerity to maintain that "the Roman pontiff ought to reconcile himself to progress, liberalism, and modern civilization...
...people that produced them. "Drivin' Steel" comes from the mountaineers of East Tennessee. It is a working class song straight from men on the job, uttered to muscular body rhythms. One can almost hear the ring of steel on steel. There is a heave of shoulders, deep breath control, the touch of hands on a familiar well-worn hammer handle...