Word: cramping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journal, quoting Dr. Arthur Joseph Cramp, the A. M. A.'s patent-medicine expert, points out that the 1939 label makes no promises at all. Said he: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is 'Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted.' This statement is about as informative as it would be to say that 'For Those Who Like This Sort of Thing, This is the Sort of Thing That Those People Like...
...Hope Well, Va. got burnt up, fell in lumum pot* at Petersburg, Va., left two children. No. 6 husben, Willie Brown, native of Richmond, Va. he died from launching ships at Carolina Ship yard, wilmington, N. C. No. 7 husben, Charlie Moten from Horrie County, S. C. died from cramp, 1 child left...
Defense Attorney Dawson complained of cramp. He asked Judge Ford to transfer the trial to a larger courtroom at Lexington, where the defendants would not have to squat behind the jury box. Agitated, Mr. Dawson pointed out that the jurors could not view his clients, among whom were such prominent Harlan citizens as Coal Operators Robert W. Creech, Elmer Hall, Bryan Whitfield. At this time, Mr. Dawson did not mention that his clients also included such characters as ex-Deputy Frank White, who, at the La Follette hearings, was accused of trying to murder ex-Deputy (and codefendant) Hugh Taylor...
Newspapers reported that Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, prolific humorist and short story writer, was down with writer's cramp in San Francisco, had to stop work on his memoirs. Quizzed further, Humorist Cobb refuted both reports, swore he had never had writer's cramp. His procedure is to write longhand, have a secretary typewrite it, "hoping to hell I don't have to change it. I have had no muscular cramp to date. Only intestinal twinges...
...impunity. A big sheet of glazed paper is dipped in water, spread smooth on a table, and gobs of color are dropped on it. The child then swirls the mixture over the paper with both hands, fingers, even forearms, continually creating new designs. Having no crayon or brush to cramp his fingers the child relaxes. Out of his tactile reverie emerge elaborate, rhythmic designs and fantastic forms, which artists admire and psychologists value as a medium of release from nightmares and other oppressions...