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...Manoel's wife, Princess Augusta Victoria Hohenzollern, or his secretary, who were the only people in his house that afternoon, found a tube and forced it down his throat he might have lived longer. The glottis, the slit-like opening into the larynx, less than an inch long, is capable of swelling with alarming rapidity. Intubation (insertion of a tube) lets the patient breathe until the swelling has subsided. More frequently the physician will cut into the trachea through the neck and insert the tube from the outside. If laymen such as Dom Manoel's wife and secretary...
Nearly all the preferred female garments had thoroughgoing trousers, undisguised by any resemblance to beach pajamas or slit skirts. Soviet women, if they follow the lead of Moscow's show (and following may become compulsory), will dress morning, noon & night in garments resembling an aviatrix's flying suit...
...Slit eyes in the mask; wild loves that...
Juan Manuel de Rosas, dictator of Argentina, was a hellion. He wore lace-trimmed drawers, lived almost exclusively on beef, rode like a centaur and decimated the population of his country. He once slit the throats of 1,500 prisoners of war, was defeated and forced to flee the country in 1852 by a former lieutenant, Justo Jose de Urquiza, head of an army of hard riding gauchos...
...from the dead. Apparently illumined by strong light from above, the figure much resembles the heroic Transfiguration over the high altar. Dr. Norwood says he noticed it some time ago. But that is not all. He has also found a Buddha, another Christ, and a horrid Brute Man with slit-eyes, pointed ears and lightning coursing about his head...