Word: disappearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ashamed. The Copley is just across the street from the Back Bay Station. When does a friend of the "New Yorker" get, off at South Station anyhow? All that indefinable air of well-being, good cigars and whiskey, that subtle compound of Brooks Bros., Yardley and Sulka disappear in a puff of smoke. The ruddy executive becomes a pathetic, puzzled little fellow in a battered fedora, clutching a suitcase in his arms and sweating profusely. He's probably run down at the heel, too. Hell, Harold, you might as well give him a dime and put him on the subway...
...confused interlude between war and reconstruction- when the Germans have been driven out and the Allies have come in, when the fascists are out of office but the civilian governments have not yet been set up, and when the high aims for which the war was fought disappear before the realities of incompetence, brutality, red tape, swollen eyes, dead bodies, ruined buildings, ruined lives, cynicism, contempt, and the starved inertia of purposeless living...
...with almost three-quarters of the combined gross business, will be top dog. The deal, in which no money changes hands, provides for an exchange of stock (three and a half shares of Magnin's for one of Bullock's), whereby Magnin shares will shortly disappear. Not so the name of Magnin-so long as either its 73-year-old president E. John Magnin or his 57-year-old brother, First Vice President Grover A. (who are also the company's largest stockholders), have anything to say about...
...which reconciles the necessary control of the modern state with the greatest feasible liberty of the individual." This Anglo-Saxon democracy, "like walking, is a continually arrested fall forward"-imperfect, surely, but the best there is and a wonderful thing at that. Concludes Baldwin: "Though the white race should disappear from the earth, yet if the American Negro and the Chinese carry on our ideals then England will be the spiritual home of man as truly as Greece is his intellectual home...
...Orleans Charity Hospital had found that wounds stitched together with "ordinary cotton thread" were less likely to become infected than those sutured with catgut or silk. Another advantage: cotton is not absorbed and will hold when a wound takes a long time to heal-catgut may disappear in a little over a week, especially if a wound is infected. Finally, Dr. Ochsner noted that at Charity Hospital the average cost of catgut per patient is $1.19, as against 93? for silk and only 1¼? for cotton...