Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vitality of photograph it easily equaled Town & Country. Text and drawing exhibited well the New Yorker technique but missed the master's polished cough and sigh. Only false note was a great photograph of, and leading article by, Randolph Churchill, jejune son of Winston, whose relation to Cleveland, if any, was nowhere explained. After that each page went well until the last which consisted of leering, Winchellesque questions without printed answers, e. g.: "Who is the minister who has the most complete collection of pornography in the city?" "Who is the financial power whose wife remarked when a maid...
General Foch in his memoirs describes the retreat of the 5th Army under General Gough as follows: "On the north the British Army maintained in general its positions, but it was quite otherwise with General Cough's Fifth Army. Along almost the whole of its front, it was swept away, its right in particular being thrown back west of Saint-Quentin up to the edge of the Crozat Canal. On . . . the 22nd, this army, badly shaken, retreated toward the Somme. An extraordinary incident here took place -one only to be explained by the contagion which spread from the confused...
Colds in the chest, Cough-drops from Exposure...
...years ago, George V last week opened Parliament. Bareheaded the venerable monarch drove with Queen Mary from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords, arrived snuffling. Repeatedly during the majestic procedure His Majesty cleared his throat as though it tickled. Once he broke a sentence in the middle to cough...
...stock market is like a cough", he continued, "at first only irritating the throat very slightly, but gradually getting worse with each successive explosion until it has to stop. In the same manner each drop in the market will lead to another low level, and finally, after the general process of weeding out all uncertain securities has been completed, a rise will necessarily follow...