Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unresponsive to sights and sounds. Dr. Francis Randall Hagnar, his physician, assured newsmen that Mr. Taft was in no pain. Helped out of the railroad car by four attendants, the sick man was placed in a rolling chair, too small for him. The onetime Chief Justice showed a faint flicker of a smile. News cameramen pressed rudely about him, exploded their flashlights before his unseeing eyes...
...container marked Veritable Benedictine D. 0. M., taken from the shopwindow, was found exactly to resemble the French original in bottle and labels. But the two red wax seals bore the faint impress of a coin stamped with the word LIBERTY and below In God We Trust-a U. S. 25? piece, latest issue. Smell deceptive, taste unmistakably raw. Report by the Mirkin Analytical and. Pathological Laboratory, Inc., 133 Second Avenue: "Proof 90; alcohol by volume 45%; extractive matter [i. e. benedictine flavor] 23%; wood alcohol, none. . . . The examined sample is free from harmful ingredients and can be used...
...which conflates in no way his university career. In its present stage the Junior Training Unit is extremely attractive as a solution of some of the outstanding evils of existing vocational systems. It is an experiment as yet, but as such it deserves an enthusiastic reception rather than a faint indictment...
...last chapter of the book describes a hanging in San Quentin prison. Two of the onlookers, both big men, topple over in a faint while the prison doctor listens to the slowing beat of the hanged man's heart. The prisoner has left a letter for the Warden, protesting his innocence: on the margin he had scrawled: "This is true, so help me God. Just a few minutes...
...Theatre, married Ac tress Olga Knipper. In 1904 Author Chekhov, 44, died at Badenweiler in the Black Forest. Author of a dozen plays, hundreds of short stories, he never wrote a novel. Though Chekhov has been called "the Russian Maupassant," all good Chekhovians think this intended praise too faint, think a reversal of the phrase would give Maupassant too much credit...