Word: deliriums
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...days (five on Saturdays), a vast, synthetic sunburst explodes in the auditorium of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, world's biggest theatre. Sometimes the 75-piece Music Hall Symphony Orchestra plays almost prayerfully. Sometimes it lashes and groans through a hot, new delirium. The 46 young ladies in the Rockette troupe are equal to either occasion. They can move shyly and demurely in ballet tulle. They can kick and whirl giddily to shrieking brass. Exact, machine-like execution has made the Rockettes known wherever U. S. precision dancing is known and many a strict balletomane takes...
Clamoring hideously, endlessly gibbering in the psychopathic wards of municipal hospitals, in the padded cells of county jails, victims of delirium tremens every day pursue their terrible hallucinations. Rats scramble over the bodies of their imagination. Snakes writhe around their necks. With tensely stretched fingers the maddened, sweating sots try to climb up the bending walls of curvetting rooms, after bats, buzzards, flitting elephants. Lizards scurry out of their roaring ears. And tales of forgotten sins flip off their white-furred, tremulous tongues...
...developed by U. S., English, French, German and Swiss specialists, the American Medical Association's Journal added another cure, which the sponsors, Drs. Philip Edward Piker of Cincinnati and Jess Victor Cohn of Hollywood, Fla. offered as being simple and certain. Only 5.5% of their delirium tremens patients have died, whereas 10% to 12% is the average, 37% the high...
...barbiturates (like allonal) because those drugs rarely quiet a drunk and do depress his circulation. They never give morphine, because that drug increases pressure on the brain and brings on death. They reduce intracranial pressure by draining fluid through a puncture in the spine. Most men who die in delirium tremens die because their hearts give way. Drs. Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient...
...realize that TIME has caught the reactions of the British public far more accurately and honestly than any other publication or paper. Concerning the reactions of New York movie audiences, let me say that their inclinations are usually painful to civilized people. Characterized by sloppy sentiment, curious changeability, delirium and misplaced loyalties, they are not the reactions of the British masses. After all, the majority of the British people are not those who stand in the streets and yell, and I feel that, while saddened by the necessity of Mr. Baldwin's course, they none the less understand...