Word: resting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Digestive Discomfort." Physicians of Baltimore's famed Johns Hopkins Hospital thumped and scrutinized the President-Elect, last week, paying particular attention to his stomach. Señora Rubio was inspected by other doctors. The rest of the President-Elect's party slept in 14 rooms at the Hotel Belvedere. In Mexico the public had been led to suppose that something fairly serious is the matter with the stomach of the man they have elected President. But Dr. Charles R. Sutrian of Johns Hopkins curtly dispelled this illusion. "Examination shows a certain amount of digestive discomfort," said...
Lucky 13. Under Mexican law the first five voters who appear at a polling booth on election morn are the legal guardians of that booth for the rest of the day. In Baltimore last week friends of General Manuel Pérez Trevino, President of the Grand Revolutionary Party, congratulated him on the fact that voters of his party were first at every single polling booth in Mexico City and at most throughout Mexico. The count gave President-Elect Ortiz Rubio 13 times as many votes as all other candidates combined. Only 19 people were killed in the entire republic...
...bounty comprise 69% of the state's inhabitants. They should prove a formidable factor in ensuing elections. "No land owner of U. S. nationality was affected by the expropriations," continued the Ministerial statement. "Of the 62 capitalists dispossessed one was Italian, six were Spaniards, and the rest Mexicans...
...been a farmer, a soldier in Russia's wars, killing many people. He had gone to the monastery to be purified but had found too much comfort (two meals per day, four hours of sleep, eight hours of prayer or meditation, the rest work). So he had climbed the mountain to be alone...
...South Manchester, Conn., Mary Keating, widow, sat in her window for two days while neighbors passed by and nodded to her. One of them, more observant than the rest, entered, found the Widow Keating, her feet in the oven, dead...