Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late one afternoon last week Franklin Roosevelt drove out to Washington's Naval Hospital to see his oldest political adviser, Louis McHenry Howe, abed for a year with heart and lung trouble. The President visited his No. 1 secretary because Louis Howe is the foremost member of the Cuff-Links Gang. This organization is composed of friends who helped Franklin Roosevelt run for Vice President in 1920 and to whom he gave sets of cuff links in remembrance of that unfortunate political campaign. Of late years the Cuff-Links Gang has been getting together with the President to help...
Died. John Mills, 25, bass, eldest brother of the famed Negro quartet; of a lung ailment; in Bellefontaine, Ohio. John Mills Sr. takes his son's place...
...three-mile waterpower tunnel for a subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. Last week Rinehart & Dennis were putting in last licks on their tunnel. But many a man who began the digging in 1929 was not alive to see the finish in 1936. Some had died of silicosis, incurable lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust. Pneumonia and tuberculosis had caused the deaths of others who may or may not have been suffering with silicotic irritation...
...pool of blood. On the floor beside him his mother was clutching a rifle, sobbing: "I've shot my son. He dared me to." Taken to a hospital, where doctors found him too weak to stand the removal of a bullet which had sheared through one lung and lodged in his liver, Son Jesse gasped: "It was my fault, I guess. It was an accident." Next morning Mrs. Livermore sobered up enough to blame it all on a letter she had received from her onetime husband. "He said I kept his letters from our sons," she babbled miserably...
...spite of Secretary Carr's well-connected attorneys, Colorado's Democratic House impeached him by a smash vote of 48-10-15. Promptly Mr. Carr underwent two minor operations connected with a blood clot on his lung. On the eve of the Colorado Senate's assembling to try the impeachment, Lawyer Dickerson marched into Governor Johnson's office and laid down Mr. Carr's resignation. Next morning George Saunders, 35, crook-hating sheriff of Larimer County, marched into the Secretary of State's office and, by appointment of Governor Johnson, took over...