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Handshaking. "Any part of the body which is given unusual exercises adapts itself to the conditions. I shake hands with so many people every day that my hand has become toughened and it does not get tired nor subject me to any discomfort...
...this case, there will be no discomfort. Males who have worn raccoon coats and oiled their hair; who have exchanged a million vapidities in fraternity houses; who have envied the head cheerleader, preened their slang, toddled all night, slaved for watch charms; and the girls they haye petted on sorority porches, girls with giddy shingles and cooing "lines"; girls with "dates" and pledge pins, innocent thirsts, crushes on young instructors, favorite love lyrics, proud independence and timid curiosity about Freud-these and their guardians, too, professors of both sexes, young and old, comfortably pedantic or secretly frustrate, testily brainy...
...better, as to the legal status of Indians. All semi-Americanized, non-reservation Indians became citizens in 1891, under the Dawes Act (24 U. S. Stats, at L. 390); all tribal, reservation Indians, not theretofore citizens, became such in 1924 (43 U. S. Stats, at L. 253). The present discomfort of the Indian lies, not in his lack of citizenship, but in the fact that although a citizen he is not generally accorded the social services to which a citizen is entitled, and that he yet remains in spite of citizenship, a Federal ward without many of the advantages...
...symptoms of seasickness are too well known to merit detailed description. Suffice it to list the following, which may come on in an ordinary case, from six to thirty-six hours after departure, normal weather conditions prevailing: discomfort in the epigastric region, varying with the rise and fall of the ship; anorexia; salivation, with frequent swallowing movements; headache, dizziness; weakness, progressing to faintness; cold perspiration of the skin, and pallor of the face, with the oft-described greenish hue. The facial expression, which is one of great dejection and apathy, faithfully records the internal feelings. Waves of nausea finally...
...look of an automobile trademark. And in the stiffness of the paper-doll body under its innumerable ribbons, sashes, badges and magnificent sweep of falling draperies-in the exaggerated dandyism of the spindling white-stockinged legs, in the pointed hands, in the dainty bearded face, burns a discomfort - the puzzled, enviable discomfort of the nouveau riche...