Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the great mass of them have, at one time or another, read the Saturday Evening Post. Many internationally smart U. S. citizens are proud of the world's most widely read magazine; but in London they must sometimes apologize and sometimes blush for the Post's chronic misuse of British titles and excruciating presentations of the habits and customs of butlers, footmen, peers, peeresses...
Thomas B. Love, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who said: "As between chronic corruption and acute corruption, I prefer the acute. I want strongly to turn the rascals out, but I am just as strongly opposed to turning Tammany Hall in. I intend definitely to vote against Smith. ... As long as I live I am going to stay in the Democratic party...
...Anatomist Kappers reminisced, "It is even probable that the trephine holes found in prehistoric skulls 50,000 years old were made for curative purposes. A short time ago the aborigines of some Pacific islands still exercised a similar practice, making holes in their skulls with sharp shells to cure chronic headaches." He mentioned briefly his own theory of neurobiotaxis which considers the brain as a functioning organ and attempts to explain its complexities in terms of work. This done, Anatomist Kappers eulogized U. S. neurologists and neurosurgeons for their advance in the treatment of tumours and abscesses of the nervous...
This was a slap at chronic Democratic deficits...
Last week, during one of his chronic outpourings in the Senate about Candidate Smith, Roman Catholicism, fiendish plots and murderous conspiracies, he said...