Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...door to prevent a draft but assure ventilation. Usually there is a search for a pair of eyeglasses, but as "Copey" keeps an innumerable quantity of these, variously ground for varying type-sizes and occasions, the search is brief and successful. A hush falls. Some one takes his last cough. "Copey" waits for another last cough and, if none comes, begins to read...
Beardsley died the next year in France of the disease that made him cough so horribly that sunny morning. Many of his drawings were left to the late John Lane, publisher of the Yellow Book, who at that time had an office-boy named Mitchell Kennerley. Mr. Kennerley has put on sale in the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, of which he is president, a number of the drawings which Beardsley sold to John Lane...
...They take rides in the millions of tiny droplets that are sprayed from the mouth or nose when people cough, sneeze, laugh, sing or talk in a forcible manner. Scientific experiment has proven that droplets may be carried by air currents from a room downstairs to a room upstairs. Thus 'droplet infection...
...None the less, they have profited therefrom, Life Savers Inc. most of all. This company is even listed on the Manhattan Stock Exchange. It has 8,000 jobbers and dealers; it makes fruit lozenges, which lack the famed Life Saver "hOle";* and shortly it will sell a Life Saver Cough Drop...
...Nujol - you won't dare cough...