Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...check for . . ." or "send antabus whatever it costs." In undertaking to answer each communication, Dr. Jacobsen has told all of the senders-except physicians and commercial firms-to have their doctors write to him. His position is that antabus medication is a "chemical incarceration" intended to "help alcohol addicts around a dangerous corner," and that in so doing a doctor's advice is needed...
Murphy is "best all around player," according to Harper. He's a good shot, competent on defense, but his greatest attribute is plenty of basketball know-how. Murphy played with a state championship team in his high school days and later spent some time on a top grade service team...
Hopper, in the concluding, speech of the day, attempted to show that the transfer of power, from central Europe to the perifery states, and form the middle class to the industrial workers, can best be met by a new third power center around the North Sea and by achieving a halfway point between free enterprise and collectivism...
...wandered about confused and uncertain as to what he actually was. He sometimes regarded himself as two persons ... At night, frequently, he imagined there was an intruder creeping about the room ..." Down to his last dollar, he went to the East River to drown himself. A drunken Scotsman danced around him singing. A canal boatman offered him a ride to Tonawanda. He gave up suicide, set out the next day to pawn his watch. On the way he met brother Paul, who tearfully pressed a roll of bills into his hand and sent him to a sanatorium for rest...
Countess Kristina, who is the heroine of the first half of the book, becomes Emperor Karl's secret agent in World War I; her scurryings around in Parisian underthings, waving secret documents, make Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd look like a timid traveler in an old suit of B.V.D.s. When Kristina collapses into the arms of Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader...