Word: dose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glances for the scenery of ideas: "The truth is that our so-called wars of interest are really wars of passion, like those in Central America. . . . Nationalism is the justificatory philosophy of unnecessary and artificial hatred. . . . Under the Nazis, for example, every German is made to take his daily dose of what I may call Nordic...
...pesos. He prefers his own guitar to a caterwauling radio and he wouldn't want an automobile if you gave him one. A car in Mexico is a liability. If he is ill, his good wife who invariably knows a great deal about herbs can buy the required dose at the market for a third of a cent. This failing, he can attend a one-peso consultation held every afternoon for the poor by the very best surgeons in the capital...
There was nothing startling in this sorry performance of commodity markets. Traders had long since discounted dollar devaluation, and even a dose of green-backery. What whetted the stock speculator's appetite was unmistakable signs of better business. Most significant sign last week was the announcement of mail order sales-infallible index of rural spending. Sears, Roebuck reported January sales 30% above last year, Montgomery Ward 45%. Ward's retail stores sales were up 21%, its mail order sales...
...More Ladies (by A. E. Thomas; Lee Shubert, producer). Nimbly written around the tried & seldom true formula of a philandering husband who is brought to his senses by a dose of his own medicine, this comedy is compact of witty lines and stale quips, hilarious situations and brummagem tricks. There is the sly, wise grandmother in frumpy clothes (Lucille Watson) who speaks a pure nightclub patois and gets tipsy. There is the joke about flowers with celebrated names planted in the same bed. Some one even gets a chance to remark that Adolf Hitler is "all swelled up with...
...colds with morphine," recommends the codeine papaverine combination. "That combination," said he last week, "seems most desirable because of the high percentage of good results obtained with it, its low toxicity, and the absence of danger, or at least of 'practical danger,' of habituation to it." One dose contains one-quarter grain codeine and one-quarter grain papaverine.* Dosages vary with a cold victim's weight from one pill after breakfast and two at bedtime to one pill after each meal and four at bedtime. This dosage has cured colds in 75 out of 100 people, says...