Word: addicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case "... a bizarre plot. ... It will sound like storybook reading, it is so fantastic." Until the four are put on trial in mid-September, the Government is jealously guarding all details of its superduper spy story. But FBI introduced a cast of characters to jar the most jaded melodrama addict. Charged with collecting information on U.S. war plans and plants: > "Countess" Grace (pronounced "Grawse," she says) Buchanan-Dineen, 34, Canadian-born, who traveled widely in Europe and somehow picked up a hyphenated name and title. FBI claims that she also picked up considerable spy-schooling in Budapest...
...reports the FTC complaint that Old Gold's ballyhoo "carefully omits" mention of the fact that "the actual difference between the average amount of nicotine in an Old Gold and in two other brands was one-177,000th of an ounce. By switching to Old Golds, the addict who smokes 20 cigarets a day will subject his system to only one-24th of an ounce less nicotine in a year." The Digest points out that Old Gold produces the 10?-a-pack Sensations, which are advertised: "You can't buy better smoking pleasure at any price...
Dwindling manpower, machinery and gasoline may force many a U.S. golf club to close its links before summer ends. One middle-aged addict who wants to prevent this is Walter Prichard Eaton, Yale Drama Associate Professor, who has roamed U.S. fairways for nearly 50 years. In this month's Atlantic Monthly Professor Eaton hazarded a cure: ". . . All we have to do is buy a flock of sheep. They know that already in England...
...team that is tackling this job for you is headed by Editor Wilder Hobson, author of a highly entertaining history of syncopation, American Jazz Music-a phonograph addict who plays the trombone with more vigor than skill. The Music researcher is Mary Gleason, who studied at Smith, Columbia and Trinity College, Dublin, was secretary to the dean of the American University of Beirut, Syria, and later researched for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in London...
...peeve of the case system addict is the long, involved and ungrammatical sentences he sometimes encounters. Sometimes stretching out for half a page, repleter will dangling participles and non-parallelism, these cases have definite soporific effect on the student. This condition is primarily the result of war pressure, for there is such a tremendous turnover of cases that it is impossible to catch every error. Write-ups are usually read by members of the department and a special editing committee under Miss Norton, but some boners manager to slip through...