Word: curely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with insurgent romanticism, promising in showing a masterful sense of situations obviously adapted for the stage, and having sentimentality to spare. The validity of purification through love is undisputed . . . in the theatre. And Marguerite Gautier is so regenerated, though even the strong forces of pure love are enable to cure her consumption. Dumas has chosen as his heroine the lineal descendant of Manon Lescaut and Marion Delorme. And the literary children of Marguerite, purged in the same manner, are still giving the census takers of fiction and drama a puzzling job, "La Dame Aux Camelias" is a play written...
...proportions and was of such a deplorably low character that it was no longer possible to assimilate the newcomers. They formed a constantly growing abscess in the body of our nation which no amount of legislative surgery could drain, until at last the physicians clearly saw that the only cure lay in destroying the disease which fed it, in effectively limiting immigration. Since that time, the abscess has shrunk noticeably. The fresh supplies of labor, however, are no longer forthcoming and industry is suffering accordingly...
...increased, until its blood begins to manufacture an antidote to this special poison and eventually becomes immune to it. From the blood of the horse the antidote is extracted, and this in turn is preserved and sent to hospitals so that it may be used to cure persons suffering from snake bite...
...increased his Ford's efficiency 9643 percent by the purchase of accessories, bought a gallon of gasoline and started for California. He only had gone the usual twenty miles, however, when the engine stopped. Some, made cynical by similar experiences with scientific restoratives, may hesitate to pursue the rest cure further and so leave Shakspere to rot in the stores...
...usefulness in untying it. The words of the prime minister may be prophetic: "I do not know who will succeed us, but whoever does will find it impossible in the present state of Europe to go on without conferences. The world is so battered, bruised, and crushed that the cure will be a slow one and will need many consultations of its leading physicians...