Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no known drug or combination of drugs which will prevent or cure influenza." Thus downrightly did Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Department of Agriculture fortify his last week's attack against bad & misleading medical advertisements. With the spread of the influenza epidemic pernicious drug vendors cried new merits for their proprietaries...
...porch steps and Vincent Jones, taxi-driving son of the Second Floor Joneses, slides over beside her. '' . . . Say, sweetie, I'll give you two bucks if you'll let me snap your garter." He is overheard by Sammy Kaplan, who loves Rose. Kaplan makes a feeble attempt to attack Jones, but Vincent is far too strong, easily spins Sammy to the ground. Mrs. Jones appears. "Now Vincent, you mustn't do that...
...laid the foundation for the reorganization of his party, winning for it the confidence of the people of the State. Later he was called to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where he had his share in the handling of peculiarly difficult war-time problems. Then came an attack of illness, after which he cut short his convalescence in order to take up the fight for his party in the campaign of 1928. His own victory in a year of overwhelming Democratic defeat cannot be interpreted otherwise than as a remarkable personal tribute...
...reminded of this by an earnest attack upon young Yale men contributed by Henry F. Pringle to the current "Harper's." Mr. Pringle paints an appalling picture of the attitude of the young men who sing "For God, for country and for Yale." They are, it appears, "on the make." Before going to college they begin looking for prominent roommates; at college they arise at 5 o'clock in the morning to seek advertising for "The Yale News," and they spend their week ends on Long Island and Park Avenue, ostensibly dancing with debutantes but really seeking the acquaintance...
...Well, I suspect that those reasons did enter into it," said Senator Borah. "I should hope that if we sign this treaty we would be more vigilant in confining ourselves to actual attack and not sentimental attacks...