Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pulitzer Prize-winning Staffer Frederick Woltman discovered that Le Pavilion, the town's poshest paradise for fat-walleted gourmets (sample price: $5 for a nibble of imported pate), is having landlord troubles. Le Pavilion's landlord: Columbia Pictures, which wants Pavillowner Henri Soule (rhymes with souffle) to cough up more rent than the piddling $16,500-a-year he now pays. The trouble began, went one version, when Columbia's President Harry Cohn drifted into Le Pavilion and was rushed to a low-rated corner table obscured by potted palms. Denying that he was ever so unkind...
...them all in a sack, and on a pitch black night took them out under an arch. First I would cough, and then immediately whale the daylights out of the cats. They whined and shrieked like an infernal pipe organ. I would pause for a while and repeat the operation-first a cough, and then a thrashing. I finally noticed that even without beating them, the beasts moaned and yelped like the very devil whenever I coughed. I then let them loose. Thereafter, whenever I had to eat off the floor, I would cast a look around. If an animal...
Testimonial. In Milwaukee, fined $150 on a drunk-driving charge, Henry Buie, 50, told the court that neither beer nor whisky had effected his condition, explained: "It's that cough syrup; I drink it morning and evening...
Gwartney then went on planting his suggestions: that the urge to cough could be resisted, that she would feel much better if it was. In the course of three hypnotic treatments, he suggested that she could suppress the cough for longer and longer intervals, starting with one minute and building up to a full hour. On the second day, the girl was instructed to cough only when absolutely necessary; on the third day she was discharged...
...Gwartney is quick to point out that hypnotic treatment did not "cure" the cough, but merely planted in the patient's mind the idea that she could suppress it herself. The girl still coughs occasionally, since there is a physical cause for the symptom, but her own knowledge that she can stop if she wishes has prevented long paroxysms...