Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Martin J. ("Farmer") Burns, 75, onetime world's wrestling champion; in Council Bluffs, Iowa; of senility. Burns defeated Evan Lewis (the original "Strangler") for the heavyweight title in 1895, when choke holds were allowed, lost to Tom Jenkins three years later, trained Frank Gotch to throw Jenkins. Trainer and Chautauqua lecturer, he boasted: "Only one man out of Cedar County, Iowa (Herbert Hoover), ever made more money than I did and he got to be President of the United States...
Thus with a choke in his voice, pallid-faced and flabby-fingered Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, "The Great Ideologist of the Nazi Party,'' opened last week in the National Socialist Cultural Chamber at Berlin what he called "War Literature Week" as the host of 60 German authors who have written pro-War books since 1918. Not one of the 60 has a name outside Germany. All world-famed German authors of the post-War generation have been men like Erich Maria Remarque whose All Quiet on the Western Front the Nazis think fit only for bonfires. Samples...
...efficacy of vaccines to prevent colds. He also points out that liquid vaseline placed in the nostrils of sniffling infants may drip into their lungs and cause pneumonia, warns against all mentholated preparations for infants' colds because the menthol may cause spasms in the infants' throats and choke them. To alleviate colds Dr. Hamburger advises rest in bed and a simple prescription equivalent of which is an aspirin tablet with a cup of weak coffee every four hours and a glass of water in between.* Nonetheless, he concludes: "More can be done specifically for pernicious anemia than...
...water. When the mosquito larvae, which breathe through tubes in their tails, thrust their tails out of water to get air, oil clogs the tubes and the larvae suffocate. M. May recommended sprinkling the water with talcum powder impregnated with a compound of chlorine and ethane which would choke the larvae to death but would not harm human beings...
...self-righteousness, filled with unconscious new ideals, answers through the mouth of Judge Ralph smith: "You chiseled every last dime you could. I don't see why you didn't choke on the food you got. I don't see how you could swallow it. This is unforgivable. I can't comprehend anything...