Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breath-taking remedies for every dis-:ase abounded in Britain a couple of centuries ago. Part of the cure for consumption was to catch the tops of nine waves in a dish, then dump the contents on the head of the patient. Asthma could be dispatched by rolling spider webs into a ball and then swallowing them; epilepsy was dealt with by driving a nail into the spot where the sufferer had fallen. Nine lice eaten with a piece of bread & butter cured jaundice, and a poultice of sheep's dung cleared up erysipelas in no time...
...mention of segregation and equal rights in the same breath seems to me a mistake. And the mistaken impression that it is impossible to have both at the same time is one of the biggest causes of present racial troubles. If I divide my apple with a Negro but refuse to let him bite off my half, I give him an equal right but at the same time I keep segregation. I can't believe an intelligent Negro would object or feel discriminated against...
...newspaper such as yours," he fumed, ". . . should never undertake to publish the story of my life without my express consent ... I have served 34 years as the head of the Jersey City government and I dare your newspaper to publish one dishonest act of mine ... or point to one breath of scandal or dishonesty in my administration." The News went right on with the Hague biography...
...Steal (RKO Radio) is a melodrama with some real assets: 1) it was handsomely photographed against handsome Mexican backgrounds; 2) it has one of the fastest and longest chases of the current season; 3) it never once pauses long enough to draw a serious breath...
...Albert went fishing, but "the treatment of the worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes" were too much for him. Each night, after his prayers with his mother, he added a secret one of his own: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath, guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace...