Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the readers of the Herald Tribune opened their papers one day last week they found an eight-column streamer headline: END OF ECONOMIC CRISIS. Beneath it, crowding the whole page with small, close-packed type and spilling over into an extra column, was advertised a cure-all for the world's ills. At the top of one column appeared a photograph of the nostrum's author, Anatole de la Marti. After plowing through a column or two. most readers were too dazed to proceed. But the gist of M. de la Marti's plan...
...would make a structure two-and-one-half times the volume of the Empire State Building. Having persuaded millions of his countrymen to purge their way to pepticity through Feen-A-Mint and to smoke themselves into salubrity with Camels, Adman William Esty of Manhattan was now out to cure them with the cups that cheer but not inebriate...
Though he remains an unorthodox agnostic, for all his optimistic idealism, Upton Sinclair thinks there is much good in Coueism and Christian Science, much that is unfathomable in spiritualism. From Coue he evolved his own cure for insomnia, an endlessly repeated: "God is here, and God is now. God is alive, and God is real. God is all, and God is love. God is my Father, and God is my Friend. God is keeping me, and God is helping me." Though the Christian Science Monitor effectively opposed him in last year's California campaign, he tells how a Christian...
What seems to be a positive cure for most cases of morphine addiction appeared in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, in an article by Drs. Theophil Klingmann & William Hillebrand Everts of Ann Arbor, Mich. Although there are not many more than 100,000 narcotic addicts in the U. S., they occur in every section of society and corrupt their friends. Most of the addicts take morphine...
...nerve to sponsor a really bawdy anthology, but with the weekly encouragement of such smartcharts as the New Yorker, such pseudo-smart-charts as Ballyhoo, smart publishers are beginning to see that anything (within reason) goes. The Bedroom Companion, or A Cold Night's Entertainment: Being A CURE for Man's Neuroses, A SOP to His FRUSTRATIONS, A Nightcap of Forbidden Ballads, Discerning PICTURES, Scurrilous Essays, in fine A Steaming Bracer for THE FORGOTTEN MALE sounded like a bold bid for man's attention. Readers who were won by its ballyhoo found it only a mildly entertaining...