Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With holy oil Monsignor de Romanis touched the Pope's closed eyes. "By this holy unction and His most loving mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever thou hast sinned by sight." The dying man's ears, nose, mouth, hands, feet by holy unction were shrived. With the others' low voices joining in the responses, Monsignor de Romanis prayed: "Make safe Thy servant, my God, who trusts in Thee. Send him, 0 Lord, help from Thy holy place, and defend him out of Zion...
...dirty wound (sometimes only a pinprick) and incubate for more than a week, producing a poison hundreds of times more virulent than strychnine. A victim of tetanus first complains of stiff neck, then tight jaws, in a mild case muscular spasms in the region of his wound. Sometimes his mouth becomes drawn in a sardonic grin, and finally he writhes in painful, uncontrollable muscular paroxysms, sometimes rocking on his head and heels. Spasms may be so severe that his stout abdominal muscle is ripped...
Edmunds, whose home is in Manila, Philippine Islands, has been studying palm-reading for nearly four years. "Although I used to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence, there is now a lot of prophet in our business," Edmunds said, as he fingered his slim moustache. "It really comes in handy, especially at the better parties...
...happen to be present when the reporter took Dr. Goulden's picture. Apparently he was on deck and had the inhalation apparatus strapped on over his face and, as there was no oxygen connected up to the apparatus, he probably unconsciously put the pipe in his mouth. It is one of those thoughtless little incidents that can happen when one is not perfectly conversant with oxygen and the impossibility of having fire of any type in its neighborhood...
...ambition to make it a permanent agency, he may stress the corps' present military values. Once he was quoted as saying that after the regular six-month CCC enrollment a graduate was "85% prepared for military life." His publicity man says a reporter put the figure in his mouth; he meant 50%. Army officers consider three months' intensive training the minimum necessary to turn a green man into a conscript fighter, thinks CCCers may be useful after a month of drill & discipline. Other military potentials of CCC: the permanent, continuously up-to-date list of CCC names kept...