Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China Seas, like an alarmingly large proportion of the cinemelodramas which have been produced in the U. S. since Grand Hotel, includes no change of scene. All the action takes place on, in or near a steamship called the Kin Lung, bound from Hongkong to Singapore. Experienced cinemaddicts need not be told who is on board the Kin Lung. It is the same hardy little group of characters who have been regularly encountered in railroad depots, country inns, trains, cross-country buses and every other public place except a comfort station for the past four years: the bad girl with...
...Nazidom's hundreds of lung-straining Party orators July is the only month of throat ease during the year. Last week Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels provoked the usual nationwide relief by issuing his usual pre-July announcement: "In never-tiring fulfillment of their duty. National Socialist speakers have worked in the cause of enlightenment in city and country at thousands of meetings night after night. The second half of the year 1935, especially the Fall and Winter, will bring new demands upon their strength. To give them the necessary relaxation and time for recreation...
...accident broke five of the pedestrian's ribs, poking one of the ends into his right lung. At every breath he took, air leaked into the cavity of his chest. Shortly after Dr. Atkinson made the man comfortable, "it became apparent that the patient was literally blowing himself up more and more with each respiration. Within two-and-a-half hours of his admission [to the hospital], his appearance had changed entirely. From a moderately sized individual he had become an enormous, puffing, grunting balloon. His face became rounded; his neck so enlarged that his chin and chest were...
...that the swelling of the abdomen had somewhat decreased. It was found that the air under the skin of the legs, abdomen and chest could be gently massaged into the scrotum and thence out the needle. It was felt that the patient had a valve-like laceration of the lung. Therefore, a large bore needle was inserted into the right pleural space and a rubber tube connected to the butt. The free end of the tube was placed under water. It was found that air bubbled freely from the tube under water during expiration, and ceased during inspiration. Both needles...
Five days after the accident the hole in the man's lung closed. No more air escaped into his skin and Dr. Atkinson removed the air-venting needles. "The patient's recovery was slow but uneventful...