Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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H.C.L. In Woodbridge, N.J., drunken driver John J. Rone Jr. was: 1) fined $200; 2) assessed $20 to pay the doctor who examined him; 3) assessed $40 for damages he had done to his padded cell...
Cripples and invalids came. "My discovery," Brown proclaimed, "will increase the life span of man to 120 years. Don't worry. My cell also extends the sexual life of man ... It will make old women feel like kittens, and old men potent. I can shake the hand of an asthmatic," said Brown, "and he will be well...
...testified that the doctors had given him up for dead. He had drunk master-cell water and was still alive. A veteran said that he had been cured of violent malaria. A woman said she had got rid of her corns...
...John Brown's devotees were simple farmers. It soon came out that the financier of the master cell "experiments" was Gustave W. Goerner, soon-to-retire New England sales manager of a subdivision of the great Du Pont Co. He and other substantial-sounding citizens were talking about organizing a nonprofit foundation to make the master cell available to all humanity...
Last week Brown's cult was still growing; crowds still swarmed to his farm. He had begun to intone like the Psalmist and to compare himself (favorably) with Christ. The master cell, said Brown, "takes all the fight and hatred out of men and animals alike. It will prevent disease and pestilence. It will prevent famine. It will make pigs fatter; make cows produce more milk. It makes the atom bomb obsolete . . . The master cell is my God, and it will bring peace...