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...Hungarian aristocrats who spend their days steaming stark naked in the hot springs pool of Gellert's Municipal Baths in Buda.* There, far from the grand hotels and cafés of Pest where Edward was disporting himself, the old Magyars went on stewing in their own sweat, with an occasional spot of tea or Tokay...
...beyond recall until Death has held it ten to 20 minutes Other way stations in the schedule ot Death according to Dr. Hyman: skeletal muscle two to four hours; stomach and intestines, six to ten hours; cartilage, ten to 24 hours; bone, 24 to 72 hours; skin (including sweat glands, hair follicles and nails), several days...
When news of the suicide of Henry Charles Whitehouse reached London, Strauss & Co.'s second largest stockholder collapsed in a sweat, was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown. Trading on the hoary old Baltic Mercantile & Shipping Exchange, biggest grain market in Europe, virtually halted while the managers posted a notice cancelling Strauss & Co.'s trading privileges. In Bombay, Bank of India and five other Indian banks started proceedings to collect the money which Manager Whitehouse had been ordered to stop paying. That day it was announced that Strauss & Co. had failed with losses estimated...
Ferdinand Pecora made many a millionaire sweat and squirm as he ferreted out Wall Street's secrets for the Senate Banking & Currency Committee (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933 et seq.). For his services the swart, Sicilian-born inquisitor received $300 per month and the thanks of his President in the form of a one-year appointment to the Securities & Exchange Commission (TIME, July 9). Last week Lawyer Pecora received from New York's Governor Lehman the reward which he really wanted. To serve the unexpired eight years of a resigned justice's term. Governor Lehman appointed Mr. Pecora...
...sudden, doctor, my ears begin to buzz. The room swirls around me. My eyes jerk and I can't keep them still. I reel, and if I don't catch hold of something I fall to the floor. Sometimes I faint. I break into a cold clammy sweat. I feel nauseated. And, doctor, I can't help vomiting. These attacks have been coming over me more frequently. I used to be able to hear perfectly clearly in spite of the buzzing in my ears. But now I am getting deaf. And, doctor, I'm afraid I'm going...