Word: manoel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copey" likes Palestrina, New England, mustard-colored suits, Kipling, Dickens. He envies Manoel Garcia, who taught singing until his 100th year and then became a cigar. Copey phobias are drafts, coughing, lateness, being photographed, being asked to write prefaces to books by former pupils, and fire. He always swore that Hollis was a fire trap...
...last week Dom Manoel de Braganza, onetime King of Portugal, sat at Wimbledon watching the tennis tournament, chatting with his good friends King George of England and onetime King Alfonso of Spain. On the day that Ellsworth Vines won the championship, King Manoel's chair was vacant. He had waked up with a sore throat. After breakfast he went to see his physician, was ordered to bed. But not until afternoon did Dom Manoel obey. By then his throat was swelling rapidly, he was choking for breath. While his secretary telephoned frantically for Lord Dawson of Penn, Dom Manoel...
...Manoel's wife, Princess Augusta Victoria Hohenzollern, or his secretary, who were the only people in his house that afternoon, found a tube and forced it down his throat he might have lived longer. The glottis, the slit-like opening into the larynx, less than an inch long, is capable of swelling with alarming rapidity. Intubation (insertion of a tube) lets the patient breathe until the swelling has subsided. More frequently the physician will cut into the trachea through the neck and insert the tube from the outside. If laymen such as Dom Manoel's wife and secretary...
...Manoel was a king for two and a half years of his 42. In his 19th year in 1908, revolutionists stormed the carriage in which he was riding with his father King Carlos and brother Crown Prince Louis Philippe, shot the King and Crown Prince to death. Manoel was crowned three months later. In 1910 a second revolution sent him scurrying to Gibraltar. Dom Manoel, who had never wanted to be a king, was quite satisfied when the republic allowed him to keep his property, valued at some $50,000,000. He led a pleasant life as the royal lover...
...Manoel, who claims to have the finest private library in the Portuguese language, deduced that "the thieves were evidently not Portuguese," from the fact that they stole no book...