Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officer. Presently he is reported dead. Miss Colbert is his wife. She bears him a son and, thinking she is a widow, is on the point of marrying a French surgeon (Charles Boyer) when she bumps into her husband at a Swiss health resort. He has developed a hacking cough and a rude way with waiters. Miss Colbert here insists on going back to Clive Brook. But when he finds that she really loves the surgeon, Brook goes off to a cafe, drinks himself to death on highballs. Sample dialog: A lady who sees Brook in the cafe saying...
...Sucking cough-drops, Gaston Bullock...
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...