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...boat through a manhole into a sewer main, paid out 500-ft. of flexible steel cable attached to the stern of the punt. Thus insured against immediate catastrophe, Mr. Brown sculled into the hot and humid black stink. Two hours later he was hoisted out of the manhole, oozing sweat and four pounds lighter...
Since President Roosevelt popularized swimming pools for victims of infantile paralysis, and hydrotherapy has become a major activity of physiotherapists, special occupational ailments have become prevalent among those technicians. They must accompany patients in warm pools. Warm water makes them lose a pound of sweat during a two-to-three hour treatment. It also lowers their blood pressure. Chlorine, essential to sterilize the pools in which the sick bathe, causes a skin irritation which is almost impossible to cure unless the physiotherapist keeps, out of the water entirely. If the patient exercises alone in a small raised pool, the attendant...
...valet bringing a cup of tea and his more intimate mail. After breakfast he donned the scarlet & gold of his rank as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards. A thunderstorm threatened, the morning was muggy-hot and to wear a busby was to be almost drowned in sweat, but His Majesty's duty was clear. Clapping on a great, hot bearskin busby, King Edward swung onto his chestnut charger, rode off to observe his birthday by a ceremonial trooping of the color followed by booming salutes...
...cover of his brother's first songbook Artist Gellert drew a barrel-chested, barefooted black convict wearing a ball& chain and resting on his pickax while he wiped the sweat from his face. Of the songs, some are mournful, some grim, some comic. But each one has its grievance. In I Went to Atlanta...
...agent de police would stop all the trolley-cars and autos until Papa got by." This system broke down, however, the night the Abbes motored out to Le Bourget to see Lindbergh land. "Then Mamma suddenly got some pains in her belly and Papa and Aigner got sweat on their heads because they couldn't get out of the car with Mamma, and even if Papa yelled 'femme enceinte' it wouldn't do any good, because all the cars were packed in like sardines...