Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which might make a stirring novel, instead of a deadly dull, if the characters were convincing. Miss Gale's are incredibly and painfully fictitious. Her style, suffering since Miss Lulu Bett from chronic realism and acute poetic indigestion, is scarcely to be recommended as a model of lucidity to students at the University of Wisconsin, of which she is a Regent. An explanation of her elusive theme may be that Miss Gale has lately been concerned more with spiritualism than with literature...
...remained for a son of my own college to take the palms, two Morris chairs, and the family silver. He was more than good: he was better. Although his diction shows contact with chronic dyspepsia, his range is excellent. In truth when he eclipsed high C. I. was ready to compare him with the Romanticists of the Early Pleistocene. Nor does he lack gesture. He should illustrate for Milt Gross. His name? I think it is Sheridan. And like his great namesake he has rivals...
...THOMPSON, V.P. The Reese Advertising Agency Inc. New Orleans, La. Unpopular Prof. Sirs: I read your magazine every week for the simple reason that it is an assignment by my government Prof., a young Ph. D. of about your calibre. I'm just wondering if you are chronic razzers. . . . We are still high and dry out here and are going to stay that way. BRUCE R. HINSON Norman, Okla. Snooks Sirs: I have noticed your interest in names which can be spelled forward and backward, and now I appeal to your fairness and squareness to print the truth about...
...Majesty sat, instead, almost day and night at the bedside of her husband. Five physicians were in constant attendance. The Emperor Yoshihito, a chronic mental and physical invalid, was struggling with a minor bronchial disorder which it was feared might complicate his other afflictions...
...pottery Wedgwoods) in 1839, conceived the principle of evolution of species through natural selection the same year, fathered ten sons and daughters, spent 20 years amassing proof for his hypothesis, published The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), died in 1882 having sorely suffered from chronic indigestion for 40 years...