Word: coughings
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...Vice Versa (Princeton University Press; $3), grew out of several lectures on the organic basis of behavior which he delivered at Princeton last spring. The learned author, pleased by his Princeton audience, declared in his preface: "It did not dwindle perceptibly from lecture to lecture; it did not cough, shuffle or fidget, and it included no old ladies who arose and walked out noisily and indignantly...
...dwindle perceptibly from lecture to lecturer; it did not cough, shuffle or figet, and it included no old ladies who arose and walked out noisily and indignantly...
...This is the cycle year for influenza. ... In every shelter I've been in during the past six weeks I've heard that hacking 'shelter cough' and the wheezy sleep of the bronchial cases." Writer Calder advanced a program of shelter-life improvement and said: "The War Office must see this not only as a social measure but as a first-class military issue." He called for immediate evacuation from London of women, children, aged & infirm; for reform of shelter life to include better sanitary facilities, daily inspection by medical officers and cleansing by trained squads...
...from France with bogy tales of German soldiers with wings that no Senegalese could reach so as to cut their ears off. The place was strengthened by five newly arrived pro-Vichy warships. Of the six which had escaped from Toulon and through Gibraltar without so much as a cough from the British (TIME, Sept. 30), one had put into Casablanca with engine trouble. These vessels, which were armed under the armistice clause permitting French defense of the French Empire, had brought about 3,000 more men, all of whom would be a long time forgiving the British...
When the student at the long table in Memorial Hall on registration day asks you to cough up five bucks, don't try to put him off by saying you've already subscribed to the Lampoon--he's only trying to collect money to finance the activities of the Student Council...