Word: faintings
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...Grossman had two wax cylinder records, one of Othello's speech to the Venetian senators concerning the wooing of Desdemona, and the other of Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be." Both records take exactly four and a half minutes to play. They were, however, very faint and obscured by much extra noise to such an extent that Mr. Grossman, despaired of ever having them transferred to modern phonograph discs...
...faint click click, followed by loud applause, broke the tingly silence. Boyish-looking Welker Cochran strutted and grinned because with that last shot he had beaten grey-haired Willie Hoppe, 50-to-46, in 45 innings, regained the world's three-cushion billiard championship...
...Beaumarchais honest, for with a queer, premonitory genius he created, not records of what had happened, but symbolic representations of what was to come. In the poisonous atmosphere of France of his time, he responded in the way that birds taken into coal mines respond to the first faint whiff of gas, to developments of which less sensitive spirits were unconscious. When the Revolution actually broke out, he was horrified. Forced to run for his life, he was imprisoned, exiled. The only time he ever realized his ambition to mingle on equal terms with the nobility was when...
...faint nostalgia assails me as I read comments in Press anent Nashville's Tennessean (TIME, Oct. 21). . . . I, as a member of the original staff, am too weak to resist adding a few episodes...
...went to San Francisco, was hired by the Examiner. She had a theory that "a woman has a distinct advantage over a man in reporting if she has sense. . . . Men always are good to women." One of the first things she did was to pretend to faint on the street. Taken to a hospital in a hearse, she investigated the emergency ward from the inside, wrote an expose which caused a thumping scandal, cost most of the hospital staff their jobs, resulted in ambulance service...