Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cried Democratic Gunner Harrison of Mississippi: "I come from a part of the country where people don't believe much in working Saturday afternoon. I share that view. We have had long hours here. Let's see some football, take an auto ride, play golf. We need recreation...
...Grand Jury promptly certified their behavior to Justice Peyton Gordon of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Justice Gordon owes his recent elevation to the bench in no small part to the good newspaper treatment he received when, as U. S. District Attorney, he prosecuted some minor ramifications of the oil scandals (TIME, March 12, 1928). No man to let past favors interfere with the course of justice, Judge Gordon found the three newsgatherers in contempt, sentenced them to 45 days in jail, denied them bond. The Times prepared to pay them double salaries during their imprisonment. Its lawyers...
Esophageal Auscultation. Announcement by Dr. Samuel Bondi, professor of internal medicine at the University of Vienna, that he was regularly shoving a small stethoscope down the throats of his heart patients, revived attention in such esophageal auscultation. The heart is closer to the esophagus than to any other reachable part of the body. Hence its sound can be heard most clearly through the esophagus wall. But to gain extra clearness at the cost of a patient's comfort is something that few doctors will...
With Nova Scotia gone Wet, Ontario confirmed in wetness, the little province of Prince Edward Island with a population less than Yonkers, N. Y., is the only part of Canada which has not cast off prohibition. U. S. Wets could not forbear to gloat last week. Cried President Henry H. Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...given to sudden uprushes of emotion around men, either pro or con, and, when they are pro, she generally ends up with a little more patchwork. This failing leads to a purple scene with the specialist himself. However, he is stupid about it and repulses her advances. This part of the book is also memorable for a typographer's error that gives us the crisp descriptive sentence: "Her hand sank on his shoulder with a low laugh...