Word: coughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concert cough should be added to the theatre cough, against which a campaign has begun in Paris, and the movement made world-wide. Spells of coughing which sweep audiences at plays and concerts are largely the result of suggestion, as almost any one can muster up a sufficient tickling of the throat during the winter season to justify some sort of noise. Physicians say that the greater part of such demonstrations can be suppressed without the slightest possibility of injury to any one. What is most needed is a conscious effort on the part of those tempted to follow...
...consideration to the health and enjoyment of others, it is courteously suggested that, during the continuance of a cold or cough, the owner of this ticket may deem it wise to refrain from attendance at all events of the Philadelphia Forum...
...policy inaugurated by the Philadelphia Forum "in the interest of others" might be applied almost verbatim to attendance at college classes. Would it not be wise for the office to post notices suggesting that members of lecture courses, during the continuance of a cold or cough, refrain from attendance at all meetings? We all know how much the lecturer is annoyed, save in our own English 2, by the continuous bombardment of coughs and sneezes to which he is subjected all winter, and how hard it is for us to hear all he has to say; not to mention...