Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune of Three Blind Mice became paired with Oh! Susanna as a major overtone of 1936 only by accident. The rhythm of Senator Steiwer's keynote phrase, "Three long years!" automatically evoked the old nursery jingle. Prompt to answer the Republican parody were Democratic versions recalling the twelve long years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. But Oh! Susanna was not revived by accident. Governor Landon's efficient handlers had searched carefully for a tune to set him to, a tune that could surely be plugged into another Banana Song. After discarding a "We Want Landon" chant...
...chances for a first-class degree went glimmering when, vacationing in Paris, he fell in love with a French cocotte. He spent two vacations with her, let her lure him into an engagement, then ran away. In Paris he also got the idea of starting a literary magazine called Rhythm, went back to London and started it. There he fell under the spell of blustering Frank Harris, worshipped him as a hero until he found he was a plagiarist. When he tried to salve his sore emotions by going on a bender, came back with a case of gonorrhea, Murry...
Then he met Katherine Mansfield. She sent a story to Rhythm, he wrote her, they met. They took to each other at first sight. She rented him a room in her apartment, but for a while their relations were purely platonic. When they became lovers they wanted to get married, but for six years her husband would not give her a divorce. Murry felt inferior to Katherine Mansfield, but he did not consider her a genius. (Once, though, he wrote her: "I know this, too, that you and I are geniuses.") Only two real geniuses he has ever...
Katherine and Murry had a hard time supporting themselves, let alone Rhythm, but they struggled along somehow, cheated by landlords, threatened with bankruptcy proceedings by printers. Says Murry: "By reason of their unremitting vicissitudes, the Murry-Mansfields were in danger of becoming a standing joke." An added complication was their intimacy with D. H. and Frieda Lawrence, who were exciting but impossible to live with. Once Katherine left Murry for another man with whom she thought she was in love. Murry says he was not jealous, knew she would come back. She did, but their good days together were over...
Those small currents kill by causing ventricular fibrillation. Normally the fibres of the muscle of the heart contract and relax in perfect rhythm, like a complex machine whose parts are all working in unison. In fibrillation the muscle fibres start to flutter independently of each other, thus stopping the heart's organized pulsations. This condition in electric shock, according to Mr. Ferris, "results from an abnormal stimulation rather than from damage to the heart. In the fibrillating condition, the heart seems to quiver rather than to beat; no heart sounds can be heard with a stethoscope; the pumping action...