Word: agent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxide in this manner, when the same condition may result due to the lack of oxygen when any other general anesthetic is being administered. We feel that it is especially unfortunate that your reference gives the impression that damage to the brain as described is due to the anesthetic agent, rather than the attendant lack of oxygen...
...Chairman Arthur E. Morgan to determine the value of the claims. Before they had progressed very far it was apparent that it looked to TVA attorneys as if the leases had been signed less for their mineral than for their litigation value. They announced their intention to show that Agent Ford had sold his one-quarter interest in the $3,000,000,000 leases to a Frankfort, Ky. racing stable owner named George Collins...
...other events followed. On November 29 the body of one Raymond Lesobre, real-estate agent, was found in an empty villa in St. Cloud, shot through the back of his head. In his pocket was the visiting card of "Herr Schott." Among people mysteriously missing in recent weeks was a young German, Arthur Frommer, who had an uncle named Schott. Aroused at last, secret police agents traced Uncle Schott to Nice. He had no recollection of giving any visiting cards to his nephew, but did remember giving his card to a plausible young German named Eugene George Weidmann. Eugene George...
...birds. Any opera scout but one named Lucius B. Blynn would have recognized the tune as Saint-Saëns' Nightingale song. Caught in a bamboo cage, she is taken to the U. S., twittering bird notes to a feathered crony named Ewyscray, venturing Gallic asides to Press-agent Jack Oakie. Before the ensuing complications are ironed out, the bird-girl trains her upper-register fluidity on the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor, on Je suis Titania from Mignon, on two less classical numbers entitled Let's Give Love Another Chance and (as Miss Pons says...
...letters of some standing, and walked to the Colony Club, where he was to appeal to a luncheon group of 20 ladies, "all Catholic and all Christian." But because he had an English accent and Irish sympathies were strong, he was suspected of being a British agent. Day after day Abbe Dimnet failed to get an audience with the Cardinal, although Monsignor Dineen became slowly "a little less rude, or a little more tired of being rude." Finally the abbe pulled up a chair, motioned Monsignor Dineen to another. "I never," he recalls, "gave anybody such a wigging." After that...