Word: nasally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particles of stone, deadly dangerous dust is sucked into human lungs with every breath. The dust varies according to the stone, but wherever there is quartz, flint, ganister, sandstone, granite, there silica particles lead all the rest. These tiny glasslike fragments do not dissolve in the moisture of the nasal passages. Sharp-edged, insoluble, they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with the tough fibrous growth, the chest becomes rigid, cannot expand; breathing becomes difficult; tubercle...
...decorations have caused mirth before last week's Heffling. Among the capitol guides is an angular-winded woman, who, when she has herded a group of sightseers into the President's room, points at a female figure painted on the ceiling, and chants in a nasal sing-song that can be heard down the outer corridors: "And that lady there is called the Eye of Gawd, yes, the Eye of Gawd. An' if you wonder why she is so called, just walk around the desk here, yes, this way around, follow me, watch the Eye of Gawd...
Baiting such Democrats as stayed to hear him, Senator Walsh of well-protected Massachusetts said he was for a "scientific" tariff. Senators Dill and Jones begged protection for the Washington shingle industry. Senator Bruce bumbled about the Baltimore straw hat trade. Small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana and nasal Senator Harrison of Mississippi, wrangled interminably over Republican and Democratic tariff statements and records...
Latin Delegates to the Conference harkened closely while Senor Calvin Coolidge spoke, joined in the general applause. Latin correspondents sent home many a personal item such as that El Presidente speaks English with a marked, nasal Yankee twang. Many wrote home also the story of how a large, Delegate-filled hotel had hung above its bar pictures of Gerardo Machado, Calvin Coolidge and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. A Cuban policeman saw the pictures, sternly reminded the bartender that the U. S. is dry, rapped out an order. Thereafter the likeness of Col. Lindbergh hung alone...
...longer what it was. No longer does the outcome depend on military strength and strategy; no longer is the civilian reasonably safe to carry on for posterity. Science, especially chemistry and aviation, has translated the next war into terms of universal destruction. . . . "In man slight and transitory nasal irritation is appreciable after an exposure of five minutes to as little as one part of diphenyl-chloroarsine in two hundred million parts of air. ... A concentration of one part in ten million will probably incapacitate a man within a minute from the pain and distress, and nausea and vomiting accompanying...