Word: yawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Oklahoma, announced that he had invented a device to enable teachers to tell whether their charges are interested in their work or not. He strings wires generating an electromagnetic field to the backs of classroom chairs, connects them to a special paper chart. When pupils yawn and wiggle, their boredom will promptly show up-as waves and jiggles on the chart...
...Dona Ana, the Commander's daughter whose seduction led to the slaying, has just died. She is indignant and aghast at having been consigned to the underworld; even the discovery that her father is moving there by choice does not appease her-better, as she sees it, to yawn in Heaven than revel in Hell. This, she is told, is not the fashionable view: Heaven is so dull that almost no one but the English can endure it. Hell, run by an urbane Devil who is as eager to please as a resort-hotel proprietor, is itself a kind...
...week, however, he kept his'last rendezvous; the cops jumped him, just after he had handed half an ounce of pure heroin to one Arthur Ricardi. Peddler Rubino fell into a writhing fit on the station-house floor, while Customer Ricardi (see cut) watched him with the telltale yawn of the addict who needs a shot. After an injection of heroin, Rubino talked...
...debutantes' parties and in back alleys-for the girl with that irresistible appeal. The girls in the Hollywood harem today are, inch for inch, at least as voluptuous as their predecessors. But that jaded sultan-the U.S. public-has lately been turning his head away with a yawn...
...year, he cried: "I'm the one who should be on trial. I was the original conspirator." But nobody in the U.S. paid any attention to him. The Russians-who had left him dangling on their payroll as a publisher's representative-roused only long enough to yawn and take his job away from...