Word: curely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nostrum or reaching for "John's" de-alcoholized kiss-last week commanded attention in many a U. S. newspaper which profits from quack-advertisements. Presumably, enough whiskey continues available in the U. S. to gamble that a good percentage of newspaper readers would "fall" for a cure. Such cure Dr. J. W. Haines, of Cincinnati, offered to provide in his powders. They contain milk sugar, starch, capsicum (pepper) and a minute amount of ipecac-a useless and fake dope against alcoholism, declares the American Medical Association...
...theoretical but unsound basis of his cure was the double chloride of gold. He prated: "It acts like vaccination, eliminating from the system the element which has an affinity for the poison in alcohol. . . . Gold acts on the higher cerebral nerve centres, the seat of the diseased will and the mania for strong drink." Because his treatment had some practical success, simple folks fixed their memories on gold. Therefore the subtle plausibility of the Haines Golden Treatment...
Peter Molyneaux, 46, able newspaperman and romantic historian, who came to Texas to cure bad lungs and who was director of publicity of the campaign that made Dan Moody governor, is editor...
Domestic life with ex-royalty not entirely agreeing with him Alexander Subkoff took to drink. His wife. Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe, sister of the former Kaiser, 34 years his senior, not agreeing with his drinking, issued orders. The youthful husband retired to Ahrweiler to take a cure...
...influence of the universities on modern literature--that is the subject of a trenchant and suggestive article in the current Nation. The immediate source for the topic was the Yale Alumni Weekly's recent plea for "honest criticism" from faculty members, that being, according to the Weekly, "the only cure" for the innumerable "sloppy and maudlin" books foisted annually on the public. The Nation agrees but points out that even at Yale faculty members was prolix with superlatives and too often lose touch with the active world of letters. Time was, recalls the magazine, when a professor of English...