Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Physical Work up to ten times normal is possible for a human in fair health. Neither the heart nor lungs limited the amount of work the body could do, in the bicycle-riding experiments of Dr. L. J. Henderson of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Unsympathetic Cat. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon of Harvard displayed a cat from which he, as a turn of surgical skill, had removed considerable of its sympathetic nervous system. This is the network of nerves which regulate the automatic functions of the body, as digestion, breathing. It is far older (biologically) and far more essential to life...
...characteristic forms of the features. Notice too the great mass of the body to which the delicate sheen of the velvet folds and the pattern of the brocaded sleeves are entirely subservient. Observe also the splendid prehensibility of the hands, one resting elegantly on the smooth bronze of the cannon, the other, its strength in repose for the moment, holding the sword-scabbard lightly at his thigh. Only Titian could have painted the deep crimson velvet of the doublet, the soft fur of the collar, the liquid blue of the sapphire, the glint of the pendant pearl on his chest...
...tradition of old New Orleans, the old days. Again there are the shouts of glee of the carousing students as they flee away to the boat landings. Again there are the boomings of curfew cannon warning sailors, slaves and soldiers off the dreamy streets. Again the fortifications of the town ring with the shots of Jean and Pierre Lafitte as the two pirates bombard the village in the dead still night...
...Davenport, Iowa, George W. Cannon, Jr., 14, high school student, admirer and correspondent of several actresses, wrote a long letter saying "to die will be a glorious adventure. ... It is my belief that my spirit will some day enter into the body of a playwright and will call forth the story of a boy who loved to dream, the story of a boy who was so disillusioned that he couldn't stand it any more," and inhaled illuminating...
...even with these Frenchmen; he would liberate Corsica from their obnoxious yoke. Three times he tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution. One day, he was given the opportunity to put into action his simple theory: "that a cannon ball, if it strikes a man, will kill him."? This theory dispersed a mob, saved the Directory, brought Napoleon a wife?Josephine, the mistress of one of the Directors. This theory was the reason that Napoleon was at the foot of the Alps with his ragged army. In less...