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...nurses, under whose care Professor Spencer is now recuperating, described his condition upon entering as clearly one of "ventricular fibrillation,"--which decoded, means that the pulse beat is too faint to count...
Last week the West's intention looked firmer, its ability brighter than in many months-which was faint praise...
...Limit? Unquestionably, the ladies lacked the crinoline-&-poke-bonnet zeal of their forerunners. Perhaps they had become jaded with success. There were even some faint, uncertain signs of a retreat. One woman delegate knitted steadily through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...
...York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, 57, saw spots, felt faint, asked his hospital commissioner for advice. The advice: slow down. A possible alternative: coronary thrombosis. "Is that the thing," inquired the Mayor, "that blows you over?" He was told that it is. "It's a good thing to know," said he, and proceeded to charge around much as usual...
...Colorado's Eugene Millikin, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said reassuringly: "We'll get a bill, and contrary to most superficial impressions, it will be a good bill. It will have a faint umbilical cord to the original State Department program, but in its important respects it will be our bill...