Word: comas
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...Manhattan last week, Mrs. Ruth Greenberg was found in a coma. Nurses, undressing her at a hospital, removed three dresses, four suits of flannel underwear, 15 pairs of thick stockings...
...living room suffered a fainting spell which caused him to fall upon the floor. His wife, when she entered the room and saw her prostrate husband, swooned in a corner. The elder son of William M. Duncan came into the room, saw his parents lolling in their coma, and crumpled up beside them. All three were inert upon the floor when the younger son of the Duncans sauntered in and the iad staggered to the telephone and whispered to a doctor. When the physician arrived, he found four Duncans stretched unconscious on the carpet...
...acute observers noted that he often pared his finger nails. The brothers and sisters of Alma Gatlin supported her contention that, in point of fact; Mrs. Petty had killed their father in self defense and would have confessed the crime before her death had she not been overcome by coma. Two expert lawyers were imported to prosecute, and Alma Petty Gatlin, who had once been voted the prettiest girl in the village, sat and listened to one of them, a thin man with an acidulous voice, calling her story "thin air," and urging that she be killed in the electric...
...advertising puffs . . . especially in advertising snowy linen . . . and beautiful silver . . . and trips to the Riviera . . . and other nice things . . . it has superseded all other punctuation. . . . But it is also being widely used in novels . . . where the comma has gone into a decline . . . and the reader reads in a coma . . . Even in the psychological study. . The Locomotive God . . . the interesting and painful experiences of the author's youth . . . are separated not by the passage of time . . . but by dots in groups of three. . . . Nor are they the type of interesting experience that was some years back . . . expressed in dots and asterisks...
LITTLE MILDRED--the class of '19 baby, brought along for, as her parent now wonders, God knows what reason. At the end of the first half she will have reduced her neighbors to a state of coma. Two active legs and two satanic arms make her a quadruple threat. Throws peanut shells on the gentleman in front of her. Her father says "Mildred!" the gentleman says other things. A terrific offensive...