Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some think results come from temporarily depriving the brain of oxygen or of sugar, its only food; some suggest that individual attention and the short psychiatric session following each shock are really what do the trick. Otherwise, because of the psychiatrist shortage, a therapeutic psychiatric interview is a rare event in a state mental hospital...
Quoting from his sources, Pegler proceeded to detail and document his charge. Warren Delano, partner in the American firm of Russell & Co., "was one among American merchants who, with British merchants, were imprisoned by the Chinese in the walled-in area of Canton, the event which led to the so-called Opium War." The "vessels owned by ... Russell & Co. soon controlled the opium trade and became known as opium clippers." "Russell & Co.," was apparently "the only American . . . firm engaged in the traffic." Concluded Pegler: "Delano died in 1898, leaving a personal estate of $1,338,000. . . . When the President...
...genius himself, Nunnally Johnson loathes geniuses. Once, after producing a picture whose director was an alleged genius, he explained: "It isn't worth all the extra trouble you have to go through to get a worse picture." He does not think very highly of directors in any event, as compared with writers. Once he said that the most important function of a good director is to see that the actors don't go home too early. He is, nonetheless, one of the best-liked men in Hollywood...
Clearly, the most brilliant social event this corner has seen since our advent was the informal of last Saturday evening. It was even more superb than Don Brown's ill-fated Bay Ride so many moons...
...Christmas Holiday, the proof is fairly conclusive that perhaps the wistful and appealing warbler should stop trying to graduate, turn over a new leaf, and start warbling all over again. Or perhaps you like the wistful type--and maybe you like Kelly's broad Irish smile. In any event, they don't belong in a psychological chiller-diller-thriller...