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...easily led, merely tools in the hands of politicians and munitions makers. Today, the nations of the world are spending 81 per cent of their incomes for armament, and according to him, the people deriving benefits are not the nations themselves, but greedy individuals growing sleek on the sweat from other brows...
...Emperor, so that, although the Corsican tormented his General, Napoleon also had a nervous desire for his praise and a respect for his honesty. This feeling deepened as Napoleon went down, until on the night of his attempted suicide he poured out his story to Caulaincourt alone while the sweat broke out on his sunken features and he waited for the poison to take effect. The poison was opium, belladonna and white hellebore. Napoleon's stomach rejected it and in place of the dignified Roman death he had courted, he spent the night vomiting, begging Caulaincourt to give...
...principal as well as the editor of Gregrannie's unpublished works. For 491 pages Gregrannie observes this crowded scene, until on her hundredth birthday, with her family gathered around her, she is still able to shake like a lost leaf with "immense dreary laughter at what men will sweat...
While covered with perspiration people sunburn very slowly because sweat filters out the burning actinic rays of the sun. When Dr. Whittle and Professor Crew recollected this fact, they concluded that a strong wind evaporates sweat, exposes the skin to unfiltered sunlight which causes the sunburn usually believed to be windburn. Wind by itself, they are sure, does not injure human skin...
...Manhattan, Jesse Owens announced that he was ready to stump for Alf M. Landon, was quoted as saying: "This country was built on the sweat and blood of the Negro race and this fact hasn't yet been recognized. I believe Governor Landon will recognize it. . . . His election will be good for America and for the people of the colored race. . . . I want to meet Governor Landon personally." Shocked at Owens' ingratitude were Democrats. At Ohio State, Jesse Owens has been drawing $3 per day since February 1935 as a non-working page in the Democratic Legislature...