Word: curely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...researches toward a cure for leprosy...
...real cure for America's illness would appear to be automatically forthcoming. Although the old morality is rather a bore, the accessible sins are no less monotonous. In the absence of a rip-roaring wrong which can be whole-beartedly cultivated, the youthful rebels must seek some respectable course of conduct...
...advertisement appearing in the current magazines offers to cure Mr. Babbitt, the type of all that is not Mencken, by selling him the American Mercury. It is a good advertisement in that it appeals to those who have learned to laugh at this particular phenomenon every time that it is seen. And it is as honest an advertisement as most...
...after all, this is but one more deviation from that norm which some would like to maintain under the name of truth. The American Mercury will never cure Mr. Babbitt nor will Mr. Babbitt cure the American Mercury of incipient megalomania. Both are facets of the uncut diamond which is American life: both are, in their particular fashion, delightful or disgusting as the critic may believe at the time...
...great strike ended. Britons at first cared little why or how. It was over. But its effects lingered, long to be felt. The "strike wounds" of industry were healing slowly. If they were to heal completely, the cure must be wrought by the aid of lessons learned...