Word: right
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built belch-talk into a system, most larynxless men could never hope to speak again. During the past three years, brief, brisk Dr. Levin has taught 30 men belch-talk. His method is simple, takes some patients only one or two days to learn, is most successful when started right after the operation. A patient swallows air through his mouth, pushes it right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with his teeth, tongue and lips as he expels it. Easiest type of word to learn is one like "church," formed with teeth and lips. Hardest...
Five years ago smart, eccentric Irving Salomon, president of Michigan City, Ind.'s Royal Metal Manufacturing Co., looked at his annual business (manufacturing chrome-plated metal tubular furniture) and found it about right: $100,000 profit on $1,500,000 gross. He decided to hold it right there, to take no business over that amount, never to be lured into the risks and discomforts of expansion. Through Depression II there were no layoffs at his $580,000 plant. And every year since 1934 Royal's net has just topped...
...with this Marxian dialectric: "Those June nights on the Riviera . . . and that night I drank champagne from your slipper -two quarts." The big scene is the party for the 400. "Judge Chanock," says Mrs. Dukesbury graciously, "will sit on my left hand, you (to Groucho) will sit on my right hand." "How will you eat," cracks Groucho, "through a tube...
...Senate of the United States Senator Louis Wigfall of Texas, an elegant credited with winging his man in eight duels, could face the Northern Senators to say, delicately: "The difficulty between you and us, gentlemen, is, that you will not send the right sort of people here. Why will you not send either Christians or gentlemen?" And Senator Seward of New York, hearing a Louisiana Senator pour on him accusations of bad faith, could remark: "Benjamin, give me a cigar and when your speech is printed send me a copy...
...various departments. More specifically, the English and Government Departments should request that they be granted more associate professorships--to be filled by the men in question. If the Administration does not see eye to eye with the departments on what the necessary "exceptional circumstances" are, they have the right to bring the matter up before the whole faculty...