Word: heart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landon spoke in a voice surprisingly calm and deep. It grew ever quieter, slower, more halting as he reached the close of his election eve broadcast, last speech of his campaign. "Our healing . . . will be revealed by the still small voice-that speaks to the conscience-and the heart -prompting us to a wider-and wiser- humanity." On came the voice of the announcer, reverent and tender, as if speaking the epilog of a sad and stirring drama: "And so, quiet falls over the study in Topeka, Kansas." Three hours later the Sunflower Special chuffed out of Topeka...
...nerves. One of the subtlest products of nervous reactions is acetylcholine. Sir Henry found this evanescent substance, when isolated from the body, to be a colorless, odorless, crystalline powder. It causes capillaries and small arteries to dilate, thus lowering blood pressure and slowing the action of an overworking heart. It relaxes smooth muscles, thus relieving spasms of the bladder, ureters, uterus, intestines...
Died. Right Rev. Monsignor John Joseph Burke, 61, famed U. S. Roman Catholic churchman, secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference since 1919, onetime (1904-22) editor of the Paulist Catholic World; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Died. Mack Garner, 36, one of four famed jockey brothers (others: Guy, Lambert, Wayne ["Skeets"]), rider of the 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade; of a heart attack, after riding in four races and bringing in one winner at River Downs (formerly Coney Island) ; in Covington, Ky. In 22 years he rode more than 2,000 winners, earned $2,425,320 for the owners of his mounts...
...aroused as much undergraduate indignation about Mistress Eaton's ale and hasty pudding scandals as the student body normal expresses in a Rinehart riot. Rays of past glory were even reflected in the window of a local purveyor, who offered a Tercentenary Cocktail to warm the cockles of your heart after the chilling effects of New England rain in the Tercentenary Theatre. But ghosts from distant times were not the only ones to stalk the stage; the contributions of Eliot and Lowell were in the foreground too, and in the growth of Harvard as a university and of the Tutorial...