Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Egyptian. His Late Majesty accomplished this by confiscating the estates of the mad Prince Ahmed Seif Eddin. That he was mad or at least mad at King Fuad, the Prince proved decisively by firing a bullet which lodged in His Majesty's throat. This made Fuad I often cough and gurgle horribly, and His Majesty carried the bullet to his tomb...
...Deaf (a $2,000,000 insurance company exclusively for deaf-mutes), N. A. D.'s President Kenner who owns a Manhattan printing establishment and insurance bureau. In general, nonetheless, discontent ruled the convention. Scarcely a finger was crooked concerning the causes of deaf-mutism (chiefly whooping cough, scarlet fever, various types of meningitis, severe falls). But knuckles bent, palms flipped, wrists twisted over many grievances...
...because Dr. Kung has begun to make good on a number of defaulted foreign loans, promises to take care of them all. Hitler, Göring and Dr. Schacht therefore licked their chops when he arrived in Berlin. They gave him an honorary degree, got an unnamed industrialist to cough up 100,000 Reichsmarks for Chinese students to visit Germany, finally hinted that Germany would love to export machinery and other goods to China if Dr. Kung would float another international loan to pay for them. But wily Dr. Kung shattered their hopes by saying that China has learned...
...account since 1926 and whose starry stimulus has always been the hope of devising an Old Gold promotion as effective as that of Camels, Lucky Strikes or Chesterfields on less than half the money spent to advertise each of those brands. Lennen & Mitchell's original slogan, "Not a cough in a carload," put Old Golds fourth among big-selling cigarets, but neither that nor "Double your money back" offers in 1935 and 1936 promised to boost Old Gold sales anywhere near the Big Three. Lennen & Mitchell, who are also agents for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, had kept an attentive...
Lenin's wife, Krupskaya, was an "ex-tremely plain woman, really ugly," who prompted Max Eastman to say: "Lenin would probably get well if he had a pretty girl!" In Paris, Poet McKay joined the expatriate throngs, caught a hacking cough by posing in the nude, was given a check to keep him three months in southern France by John Reed's widow, Louise Bryant. He gave up a job in Rex Ingram's Nice movie studio after chasing a co-worker with a knife, and wrote his sensational novel Home To Harlem. In Morocco, McKay...