Word: plexus
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...nearby. On a chair lay an euphonium, a tuba-like brass horn which Mr. von Schilling had borrowed from a friend. Suddenly Father von Schilling heard a soft beep from the big euphonium, saw that Son Stanwurt was not only blowing into it but blowing correctly from the solar plexus rather than from the chest. Von Schilling leaped to a piano, struck an F and B flat which the child immediately echoed. Musician von Schilling cried to his wife: "Mother, I've got a euphonium player...
Birthday, Poet Edwin ("The Man with the Hoe") Markham: 84. Said he to Princeton University's English Department, his birthday hosts: "When you finish a good poem, you must be able to say 'ah,' as though you were hit in the solar plexus...
...spare the time from such other headaches as Ethiopia and Nazis, something should be done to help China by maintaining "the open door." China has received the heaviest solar-plexus wallop to her economy not from Japan but from the Pittman "Silver Bloc" in Congress, whose success in jacking up President Roosevelt to jack up the price of silver forced China's currency off the silver standard and dislocated the affairs of 400,000,000 Chinese. Last week's keynote caused the Japanese Foreign Office's tart spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau to snort: "Senator Pittman...
...Judging how far below the earth the top of an ore body might be was more difficult but Mr. Haas could make an estimate if he was careful to hold the indicator in his right hand and keep the fingers of his left hand pressed against his solar plexus...
...refused to shake hands with him. Sentimental, touchy Fitzsimmons was hurt, brooded over the slight, refused to shake hands when they met in the ring. He told Robert Davis he would win in the seventh, then changed it to the 14th. In the 14th his blow to the solar plexus left Corbett retching and helpless and Fitzsimmons champion of the world. After Corbett had been counted out Fitzsimmons offered again to shake hands with him. This time Corbett accepted...