Word: hiccups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from the downpour with their gigantic black hands clenched in the rain. The muffled breath of the larch forests; the solemn chant of the fir-groves, whose dark corridors were stirred by the slightest wind; the hiccup of new springs gushing out amidst the pastures; the brooks licking the weeds with their greedy lapping tongues; the creaking of sick trees already bare and slowly cracking in two ; the hollow rumbling of the big river swelling down below in the shadows of the valley...
...Whatever other advantages it may possess, the new type of detective picture is at least likely to help eradicate from the U. S. cinema that traditional scene in which the comedy character begins to hiccup and mispronounce while gulping at his second cocktail. In Star of Midnight, Clay Dalzell (William Powell) starts his day, not with orange juice but with a highball while shaving. He also requires four Martinis, ten stingers, one beer and an unspecified quantity of brandy neat. Through all this drinking he not only maintains perfect sobriety and finds himself encouraged to solve the problem...
...making all this possible by voting a refusal to use Memorial Hall as a central dining unit, Law School students have lost an opportunity, which, as it now appears, will scarcely be offered again. True, as it stands, the huge ghastly "architectural hiccup" would not appear to be a particularly attractive dining room. But brighter windows could have been inserted as well as steel beams, and in voting to dine together Law men would have followed the example of the college in its revolt from the temporarily attractive freedom of the one arm lunch. The legal profession, of all others...
...report noted that "the perfect form of anesthesia, free from all dangers, has not yet been discovered." And: "The chief hazards . . . that have to be compared are fatal failure of respiration, syncope [serious fainting] and collapse, postanesthetic necrosis [decay] of the liver (chiefly from chloroform), post-operative pneumonia, persistent hiccup, flares and fires from ether, the bursting of cylinders containing any gas under pressure, and particularly cylinders of oxygen or nitrous oxide if the valve is oiled, and, finally, explosions in anesthetic apparatus in which ethylene or ether is administered...