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Since the object of the Nazis had been to make Dr. Anton Rintelen, "King Anton" of Nazi Styria, their Chancellor, this was as much as to say that Chancellor Dollfuss had yielded at his last gasp to the Nazi solution...
...life had been prolonged by four blood transfusions. . . . She died while her parents stood beside her. Memphis, Tenn.-Four-year-old Willie Mae Miller died today on a hospital operating table where she had been rushed for a hurried examination after a relapse at her home. There was a gasp of pain, then a fleeting little smile. She slumped back on the table. It was the end. . . . Leucemia. Bound Brook, N. J.-Mrs. Santo Pinto, 48, mother of eleven children, died late yesterday of leucemia, after an illness of 16 months. Orange, N. J.-Mrs. Hazel Sinonair, 30, died today...
...line in "Kubla Khan" and proceeds to mangle its beauty by misquotation. But when, after rising in a valiant crescendo of commonplace through pages and pages of the quintessential trite, he comes forth with the astounding conclusion that "Literature is Life," we can only throw down the book and gasp...
...March 13 et seq.). Last week amid Firebug van der Lubbe's passionate protest, Judge Bunger suspended the trial for half an hour and the Dutchman was led below. When brought back into court he again seemed stupefied as in the past but suddenly began to writhe and gasp as though struggling to throw off his stupor. "I can't say anything," he moaned at last. "I have just been below. I have voices in my body. There are voices in my cell...
...their superficiality. The reader, one gathers, is suposed to be startled when Mr. Herbert Agar says, for example, that Washington's sole "job" in 1776 "was to keep an army of some sort in the field, and wait for the English to lose the war;" he is supposed to gasp when he hears that in 1814 "Madison's government... was delighted to be out of the struggle on terms which were not humiliating," that "Grant was the politicians ideal of a President." Unfortunately for the publishers, for the critics, and for Mr. Herbert Agar this too much emphasized realism...