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...have had an opinion on the matter but it was an opinion so contrary to widely-advertised ones that we hesitated to utter it. Investigation shows us that others believe as we do, namely, that the cough cannot always be controlled. Yet you will find dogmatic persons in robust health who insist it can be controlled. That assertion we deny with all the emphasis of ten-point ink. Some coughs are unnecessary. Others are unavoidable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Use Rem | 11/6/1929 | See Source »

Gleefully last week anti-tobacco leagues and anti-cigaret societies pointed to young King Zog of Albania as a frightful warning. Having smoked a small carload of cigarets (coarse, loose-rolled Macedonias) in the past year,* King Zog developed such a cough that his Italian physician announced that he had completely lost his voice. King Zog was dumb. Alarming news that the dumb Zog's ailment might be cancer of the throat caused European chancelleries to turn anxious eyes on Albania. Despite its bachelor king, Albania is already an Italian protectorate to all intents and purposes. Diplomats feared that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: International Cough | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Rizzardis, aerialists extraordinary . . . Welsh & Kaplan, divertissement . . . Maybella de la Maye, operatic star . . . the Smfth Brothers & Their Eight Musical .Cough Drops . . . Frenzo, master of legerdemain . . . newsreel. Roseribergs from Queens . . . Callahans from Brooklyn . . . Schmidts from Yorkville . . . Whites from Harlem . . . Rosenbergs, Callahans, Schmidts from the Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Hippodrome | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...nice long table, with mother at one end and father at the other, is just right for a family of nations. Mother can wheedle, if little Miss Venezuela won't behave about her oil. Father can cough or threaten, if Master Bolivia kicks under the table again at Master Paraguay. Fortunately for the peace of the Americas, just such a family table stands perpetually in the white marble Pan-American Building, at Washington; and there, last week, mother and father dished up a piping dinner for all 20 republics. Of course the "family party" was really the Pan-American Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Family Peace Pact | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...first stage" of the Royal case was described as "gradual in its onset . . . a general infection . . . little or no cough ... a sense of illness-yet a wish, born of quiet courage and the habit of duty, to make light of the illness and hold on to work, thus adding to the wear and tear of the fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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