Word: drug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wholesale homicide occurs in a dream. The manufacturer's family have camped on the composer's trail with cannibalistic eyes. They have considered him a plump, promising morsel to be gobbled up in matrimony by Fluffy Daughter. In a drug-inspired vision the composer (Roland Young) fancies himself actually shackled to the family. He is forced to devote his talents to frenziedly manufacturing widgets-whatever they are. The natural result is that he slays them all in disgust. Follows a great lark of a trial, wherein a jury of critics decides his fate according to the worth...
...Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Dr. Eleanor C. Jones injected into the spinal column of a seven-year-old epileptic boy a newly developed drug-luminal. She claimed that the epileptic had been virtually cured-he no longer has eight or ten convulsions...
Said Dr. Marshall Osnato, of Manhattan: "It is extremely unlikely that a drug which acted as a sedative when administered into the stomach or veins would be a permanent cure when injected into the spine...
...Coolidge attended a dinner given by Secretary of War and Mrs. Weeks, one of a series of ten given by various members of the Cabinet. The guests included the Presidents of Yale and Brown Universities, Under Secretary of State Philipps, Mr. and Mrs. Louis K. Liggett of Boston (drug stores), Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, etc. ¶ The President called a meeting of the "Government's business organization" (a body of Government executives first called together by President Harding some two and a half years ago), and urged continued and greater economy...
...them are born of Shaw's inevitable penchant for controversial conversation. Christianity is alternately belabored and immortalized. History is consistently in caricature. These moods and many more are bundled into three full hours of changing action. Viewed as a whole, the play tantalizes. It is a stimulant and a drug mixed in the same crock...