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...Lamb was sent away to a private asylum (Charles had already passed six weeks in the Hoxton mad house). Coleridge wrote her letters of metaphysical commiseration, which baffled Charles and may have enraged Mary. One day after her release she was quietly talking to Coleridge. Suddenly she seized his wrist, fixed him with a glassy...
...these concessions could save southern Europe from war, doubtless the President and many a U. S. citizen would consider them well justified. Assuming that Franklin Roosevelt made such a move last week, it was significant-the first time in World War II the U. S. had gone beyond moral wrist-slapping, the first step in economic intervention in Europe. If Mussolini rejects it, it may be forgotten. If he accepts, the President will score his first success in limiting World War II and U. S. policy toward Europe will have a new precedent...
...thinks that the idea back of a pool and a billiard room is pretty sound. Naturally studies and exams come first, but with a little application any fellow should be able to loosen up his wrist and hit a dead-center ball. Besides, it's good relaxation...
...over the eastern U. S. stared fixedly at a glass jar suspended above a patient's bed. The patient had syphilis. From the bottom of the jar, a yellowish fluid trickled through a flexible glass tube into a needle inserted in the vein between his elbow and wrist. Proudly the patient grinned at his distinguished guests, flexed his arm. Snapped his nurse: "Don't show off." The apparatus was an ordinary "Murphy drip," long used for glucose feedings...
...bell device, to be carried on a golfer's wrist, which rings when he has finished his swing, signals him that he can now lift his head...