Word: heart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more magnificent sentences, Senator Ashurst enunciated the whole spirit of a filibusterer, as follows: "Although of superb physical strength, you can take the heart even out of an elephant, the stomach out of an ostrich, and you may finally pierce the hide of a rhinoceros if you keep at him so great a time as the long and weary months that I have been practically on the gridiron, trying to prevent the great injustice this bill would perpetrate upon Arizona...
Died. Thomas S. Butler, 72, "fighting Quaker" Chairman of the House Naval Committee; of heart disease; in Washington...
Died. Alan Dale (born Alfred J. Cohen), 67, for 33 years incisive dramatic critic of the New York American (Hearst), longer employed in that work than any other Manhattan critic; suddenly, of a heart attack, on a train running between Plymouth and Birmingham, England...
...order of authorities all letters and wires addressed to Lhasa Government and Calcutta British authorities have been seized. Forbidden to speak to passing caravans. Forbidden to buy foodstuffs from population. Money and medicines came to an end. The presence of three women in caravan and medical certificate about heart weakness not taken into consideration. On March 4 expedition started southward. All nine European members of-the expedition safe. Many scientific results after four years' travel...
...rightly been permitted to dance only once, and that once only in sport. "Lorie's grief was incurable and without rights and should have hidden itself. But as it was a grief without understanding, it was also a grief without inhibition, and this produced a great pain . . . the paternal heart of the professor was lacerated by this misery, by the humiliating terrors of this passion, without rights and without cure." But the "night of a child establishes so broad and deep an abyss between one day and the next" that in the morning Lorie's grief was quite forgotten...