Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treatment consisted in giving a diet with a high protein content: liver, meat, fish and soya-bean derivates. We gave rice polishings in the form of a cake made with flour and a little baking powder and fried in peanut oil. These were very popular, especially with the children. Vitamins were given. [Some made] a rapid, uncomplicated recovery; in [others] progress was slow . . . with disappointing relapses and a tendency to die suddenly and unexpectedly...
...Buyers content with simple violence and vice got their money's worth. But if Rome Hanks were sold with a money-back guarantee, its publishers might live to regret its boom. Overwritten, exaggerated, affected and confused, it is an incoherent patchwork of incidents stretching from Waterloo to Roosevelt II, centering in the Civil War and loosely sewn together by the narrative of a young man in search of his ancestors. (One of them is Grand father Romulus Hanks, late Captain of the 117th Iowa.) It is crowded with pas sages of adolescent naughtiness, self-conscious profanity and dreamy, implausible...
...children's beds and fed and took their temperatures and weighed and measured them very efficiently . . . whereas in Connemara the mother hugged them, mammocked them, kissed them, smacked them, talked baby talk to them or scolded them; in short, maternally massaged them to their hearts' content...
Said Pastor Low: "To take white youngsters off the city streets is ordinary, but to accept Negro youngsters in the home isn't done every day. . . . It's going to be a worth-while project for us church folk who are quite content to give money and to say prayers so long as neither bring these people too close or cause us too much personal effort...
...attributes his transcendent choral effects to the cajoling rather than the browbeating of his talent. His rehearsals are continuously good-humored. He is a genius at making singers relax. For martinet choirmasters Father Finn has nothing but contempt. Writes he, in his effulgent Hibernian prose: "Sometimes [these conductors] seem content to fabricate their figures in ice, hankering to muse in temperatures below zero, phrasing frozen notations with icicle-batons. From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed...