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...were his cosponsors. We have repeatedly applauded his exposures of crooks and racketeers. If his judgment equaled his courage he would be a great newspaper man. . . . Mr. Pegler has developed antipathies of such violence that he has allowed his feelings to overcome his reasoning power. When the disease becomes chronic, it is serious. Take, for example, the Pegler column today...
Homesickness is "a contagious disorder which may spread with the speed of an epidemic." Its advanced stages are marked by physical disorders, irresponsibility, inefficiency. It may be characterized by cold sweats, palpitations, chronic constipation, headaches, weeping and sobbing...
...Taming. Ingoldsby booked all offenders and he checked the meting-out of punishment aboard ship. With an undercover squad (in Navy uniforms) he surveyed the joints suspected of pandering, periodically raided the chronic troublemakers. He posted guards around shady hotels. He kept a confidential "black book" and used it with realistic diplomacy...
...thousands of years in human life annually" by preventing recurrence of cancer after operation, 3) help schizophrenic and other insane patients, probably by improving the health of nerve fibers, 4) fight rheumatism ("against acute arthritis it is a quick and certain cure"), hardening of the arteries and several other chronic diseases, 5) speed healing of wounds, burns, frostbite injuries. But they warn that ACS is harmful in certain heart diseases...
...atrocities of war . . . the spectacle of Spaniards fighting among themselves; and all the time, like the drone of a bagpipe accompanying the louder noises of what is officially called history, the enormous stupidity of average men and women, the chronic squalor of their superstitions, the bestiality of their occasional violences and orgies . . . Goya recorded...