Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bluffing and might be expected to devalue any day. To frosty bankers it must eternally seem like bluffing when a fire-eating politician shouts at the top of his lungs, screams in headlines and has cut into a monument at Pesaro: "We will defend the lira to the last breath, to the last drop of blood...
...partial vacuum of those pleural cavities the lungs expand and collapse, expand and collapse with each breath. Sometimes infection inflames the lining of a pleural cavity, causes an exudation which fills the cavity and leaves no space for the lung to expand. In such a case of pleurisy, the fluid has to be drained off through a hollow needle carefully pushed in between a pair of ribs...
...Gugsa's father kept up the family feud against Menelik and his grandnephew, Ethiopia's present Emperor, was on the best of terms with the Italian administration in Eritrea. When he died three years ago it was in the arms of an Italian doctor. With his last breath he made his son Gugsa swear eternal friendship to Italy. Well aware of all this has been Emperor Haile Selassie. Some years ago to keep Ras Gugsa and his 15,000 warriors in line, the Emperor married the Tigre Chieftain to his second daughter, but she unfortunately died in childbirth...
This he promptly did. His father gave him a part in a curtain-raiser, cast as Paris, but Sacha stayed overlong reading a new play, was late, lost his wig and appeared on the stage half in costume, out of breath, his helmet dropping down over his eyes and ears. As Helen's welcoming words were, "Here comes my beautiful Paris!" the cast burst into laughter, began to ad lib, until the audience stamped in unison. Quarreling with his father, Sacha ran away. He appeared in a comedy in the provinces, lost his mustachios, forgot his lines...
...British Open Champion Alfred Perry, one up after 35 holes of play. Thirty feet away, lying two, was the ball of U. S. Open Champion Sam Parks, noted when he won the championship last June for deliberateness approaching the fidgets. Deliberate now, while some 5,000 watchers held their breath, Sam Parks finally tapped his ball, rolled it squarely into the cup for a birdie three and a tied match. There was small consolation for the British in this dramatic draw. For, as last week's matches at the Ridgewood (N. J.) Country Club ended, they found themselves roundly...