Word: faintings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faint Praise...
...please don't damn with such faint praise one who is deserving of at least a three line notice for his own accomplishments...
...power to make visible the vital essence of man's life in the form of a thin flame shaking upon a thread. The electricity generated by the heart is carried to a silver quartz thread hanging in a magnetic field. As the heart strikes in and out, this faint fire shakes and shakes in the silver cord-patent to man, as it was of old to Atropos* Dr. Charles H. Mayo of Minnesota warned laconically: "Americans eat too much." Officers elected: Dr. Rudolph Matas, of New Orleans, President; Drs. Eugene H. Pool of Manhattan, and John S. McFachern...
...learned back and laughed uncertainly, to prove that it was all just for fun, and that nobody really had been murdered at all. We laughed too--just as long and loud as we could--but we fear the man next to us looked a bit skeptical, as we have faint recollections of having grabbed him violently by the left leg (merely for support, of course) after the first revolver shot had been fired. To relieve the general feeling of uneasiness in the audience further a soprano came out between the acts with "What Do You Do Sunday, Mary"--which didn...
...first faint peep of morning, the spirit of John Harvard, soft returning, takes up again its customary watchfulness: in sculptured meditation, behind that pensive mask, there sits enthroned a pedestaled revolt...