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...Next to swift death, the worst effect of infantile paralysis is inability to breathe. The rib-raising muscles which cause the lungs to expand are paralyzed. The victim soon suffocates...
...wrote fluently, often beautifully, never let the weight of his thought conquer his fondness of imagery. ''The ox of today." he said, "aspires to no more than did the ox when man first yoked him. The sea gull of the English Channel, who poises him self above the swift steamer, wants no bet ter food or lodging than the gulls who circled round as the keels of Caesar's galleys first grated on an English beach...
...last fortnight, was born in Alabama, got his general education at Williams College, his law at New York University. He is swarthy, small and solidly built. Membership in the "Dr. John Roach Straton's Sunday Morning Bowling & Breakfast Club" has not prevented a gentle paunch. He is a swift thinker, an eager talker. To him, as to Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays. Liberals, workers, writers and bohemians look for championship & defense. Other books: (with others) To the Pure: History of Obscenity ; Censored: Private Life of the Movies (TIME, March...
Engaged. Miss Hortense Henry, granddaughter of Packer Edward Foster Swift of Chicago; and Gordon Phelps Kelley, sporting son of William Vallandigham Kelley (1905-12 president of American Steel Foundries, board chairman of Miehle Printing Press...
Fortunately the question remained purely academic. Lloyd George did not die. His urethra was explored by skillful Dr. John Swift Joly (author of Stone and Calculus Disease of the Urinary Organs). While King George's physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, nodded sagely over the operating table, the learned medicos removed his prostate gland. Next day David Lloyd George was sucking tea through a goose-necked tube...