Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around to the Mayfield Club or Pepper Pike Club that I had lost my step-ins, think what would happen to my social standing. . . . But the best philosophy I ever heard can be expressed in three words - 'don't kid yourself.' That realization helped me to cure my Depression." Because clergymen objected, a playlet called "Does Crime Pay?", starring plump Mrs. Alice Schiffer Diamond, widow of Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, was dropped from the bill of Billy Watson's burlesque show when it reached Paterson, N. J. Protested Actress Diamond : "My theatrical act teaches a great...
...shut him up. Curly was her husband's bastard; she had raised him. Gradually Amy is drawn into the family affairs; the memory of her own troubles begins to fade. When grandmother dies, her own troubles look unreal. Geoffrey comes out for the funeral. He has tried to cure his marital troubles by an affair with voluptuous Nina. After his night of infidelity he woke up with a headache like a hangover. By that token he knows his wife is the Woman in the world for him. Heat Lightning is the Book-of-the-Month Club's April...
...advertiser had a hocus-pocus "cure" for varicose veins. That led enterprising Mr. Baker into the "cancer-cure" business. Receipts from using the "cures" of two other quacks-Harry M. Hoxsey of Muscatine and Charles O. Ozias of Kansas City-started with $1,380 for October 1929. reached $75,232 for June 1930. But the A. M. A.'s weekly Journal (for doctors) and monthly Hygeia (for everybody) began flaying Quack Baker. His receipts dropped until last January they were only $7,008. He lost the license for his broadcasting station KTNT. Iowa enjoined him from practicing medicine without...
...cure lies in a close-reined and less liberal supervision of the course. The lecturers might succeed, as some already do, in relating their lectures more closely to the material and purpose of the course, without slipping into the easy error of repeating background material to be found in the required reading. More emphasis on the historical aspect of the material would clear many of the confusions existing in the course. But the real remedy lies with the section men. If the course is to become clear and unified they must cooperate, either by regular meetings to discuss their problems...
...problem must be separated from politics; laws like the Baumes law, which, incidentally, have been tried in western states and given up as failures, and which were directly responsible for recent prison breaks, must be repealed; most important of all, the emphasis must be placed on crime prevention, not cure...