Word: yawns
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Near Baltimore, lived a lazy, black rascal called Matt Fisher. Last week, when ennui made him yawn and moan, he decided to put an unused tie across the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad to derail the Philadelphia-Norfolk express train. Whistling for his dog, Matt Fisher strolled towards the railroad...
...Calvin Coolidge, apostle of Prosperity, visiting perhaps the greatest single source of Prosperity in the U. S. The low mountains of Itasca and St. Louis counties are, literally, mountains of iron. Near Hibbing, where the earth gives an enormous red yawn, is the Hull-Rust Mine, the largest open-pit iron ore mine in the world...
...Yawn...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., one Nettie Friedman found a seat on a subway train, one afternoon last week. It was hot (84° F.) and fetid. People yawned and wagged their heads drowsily. Miss Friedman yawned. Nobody noticed anything wrong about her. At the end of ten minutes, she was still engaged in the same yawn, with her tongue hanging out a little farther. The lower part of her face and jaw were paralyzed. Several subway folk tried to help her, failed, then carried her off the train and called an ambulance. At the Jewish Hospital, a doctor massaged her face...
...cigaret girl had just given her first yawn. The blonde from Showboat was explaining for the third time why her girl-friend could not come. The lawyer from an Ohio town was about to order more White Rock water "or sumpthing" The Butte, Mont., mining man was laughing at the song, which he had never heard before, of a girl named Anna, from Butte, Montana. It was, in other words, 1 o'clock in the morning and in Manhattan's livelier night clubs the evening was just beginning to bubble. In the streets outside, crowds at corner cigar...