Word: bane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bane of the doctor is unpaid bills. In Prosperity, doctors say, patients buy luxuries instead of settling their accounts. In Depression they feel they cannot afford to pay. Like the tailor, the doctor can wait. Last week in Marceline, Mo., Dr. Ola Putman thought he had waited long enough. He added up his accounts, found patients owed him $36.000. He considered the Depression, offered to settle for two-thirds, published the offer in the Marceline 'News with a list of 75 of his debtors...
...Syndicalists, bane of the young republic, were out on a general strike. No milk was delivered, no garbage collected. Electric light and gas lines were cut. No trolleys ran. Violence started when Civil Governor Anguero visited the jail to plead with 51 hunger-striking Syndicalists to eat. The prisoners, who in some way had obtained guns, replied by firing a few wild shots, collecting all the furniture in the jail and making a bonfire of it. Riot squads rushed in to quiet them...
...officer for every 1,000 inhabitants. There are battalions of colonels, squadrons of generals. Alfonso pampered the army, for the army kept him in power (only last January he raised the pay of all lieutenants 25%, generals 10%). Republican leaders realized that the army was the bane of Spain last week but did not know what to do about it. Spanish officers cut the crowns off their uniforms last week, but did not throw them away...
...Social Hygiene gave the National Research Council funds for a study of drug addiction and the invention of a drug which would do for medicine everything which the habit-forming drugs do, yet not cause habit itself. Such a harmless, beneficial drug would make the manufacture of the bane ful drugs needless. Then they could be completely suppressed...
...moral in the last sentence Mr. Bris bane has repeated as often as that child-rearing and travel broaden one. An incessant traveler himself, he happened to recross Kansas last week. Another colyumist, Urban Heywood Broun (reputedly earns more than $50,000 yearly), also crossed Kansas last week-for the first time...