Word: coughings
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Before starting on what he called his "great adventure" in clammy midwinter London, Mr. Mellon last week planned a brief holiday in the South, to cure a lingering cold, rid himself of a hacking little cough and warm his old bones...
...need of funds, would reopen the wound of his old love, watch the metaphorical blood flow as he penned a poem. Last and most famed of George Sand's lovers was Frederic null Chopin, of whom a friend said: "There was nothing permanent about him except his cough." Granddaughter Aurore found basis for her belief that George Sand lived a relatively virtuous life in the fact that during the last seven years of their life together she was completely continent for the sake of Chopin's precarious health...
...candle-lit surgery in London, Dr. Jekyll brews broth of Hell, gulps down his potation, and with many a phthisical cough turns into "Mr. 'Ide," the terror of Limehouse. In Germany, Bavarian merrymaking is stilled as Frankenstein's monster stalks abroad. And somewhere in the English countryside, Count Dracula pushes up his mouldering coffin-lid, flicks the gravedirt from his shoulders, and adjusts his cravat for a pleasant evening...
...Davis' speech was dignified, scholarly, slightly trite. His delivery was frequently impeded by a choking cough. He divided Republican rule into three eras ?"Dark Betrayal'' (1920-24), "Smug Self-Complacency" (1924-29), "Wild Dismay...
...charities. Birthdays, Hon. Katherine Plunket of Ballymascanlan, "Grand Old Lady of Ireland" (in); Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes (64); Representative John Nance Garner (62); the Pennsylvania Limited (50); Archduke Otto of Habsburg (19)-Died, John Walker ("Johnny") Pope, 32, famed young Wall Street operator; of a lung infection following whooping cough; in Manhattan...