Word: conti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good shots: Robert Cummings spiking Coburn's precious Romanee-Conti 1903 (only twelve bottles vintaged, six of them for the King of England) with soda pop to make it potable...
...autobiography, Present Indicative, he has written: "She . . . gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." For a while she went to the Convent of the Sacre Coeur, Streatham, studied dancing under a Madame Espinosa, and acting at Italia Conti's London school. She had cards printed reading Miss Gertie Lawrence, Child Actress and Toe Dancer...
Fundamentalist. White-headed, eagle-beaked old Charles Beard has developed the most profoundly ironic mind of any U. S. historian. Because irony has value in a period of emotionalism, his new book is a timely astringent. Disavowing "Isolationism" as an impossibility, Beard argues, as he has before, for a "Conti-nentalism" consistent with the ideas of the Founding Fathers. Sonorous and bland, he mocks both the ambitious Imperialism of Theodore Roosevelt and the lofty Internationalism of Woodrow Wilson...
Venereal Disease. "Complete, up-to-date national statistics on [venereal disease] are not available," says Dr. Conti. ". . . Considering Germany as a whole, social disease cannot be considered widespread. ... In fact, new syphilitic infections are so rare in Germany that our university clinics must hunt far and wide for such cases...
Tuberculosis. In 1923, says Dr. Conti, 15 out of every 10,000 deaths were caused by tuberculosis; by 1936 this dropped to seven...