Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except for the fact that it supplies in its commandments a code for clean living that has been paraphrased by many health departments, the Christian Church, founded upon a rock not to be shaken by the windy babbling of false prophets, has had little to do with the shifting frontiers, the deciduous dogmas, of modern medicine. Thinking always of the cures performed by a man of Galilee, it has held apart from the contentions of surgeons and physicians, to interest itself rather in the works of those faith healers who work without stethescopes or education, trying to restore the sick...
...Harold Anson, member of the Bishop of Oxford's committee: "The duty of the permanent committee will be to advise the Church upon questions in which it should cooperate with the medical profession in regard to healing, and also upon those questions where morals and physical health are very closely related-for instance, birth control...
...Mercantile Health Work Department of the University Business School is jointly sponsoring the meeting, which it is planned to supplement by others of a similar nature. Among the other organizations under whose auspices the series of meetings is being organized, are the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the Society for Mental Hygiene, the Retail Trade Board of Boston, the Society of Industrial Engineers and the Manufacturers' Research Association...
...Fascists swarmed like a Titan ant horde, rejoicing militantly at the third anniversary of Fascismo's "bloodless" triumph. Round the motor car of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, Fascists crowded in a tight packed mass-the quintessence of joyous adoration. Their leader's face, pale from recent ill health, lighted with an inextinguishable flame. Rising he cried: "Fascism has now broken down all dikes and overcome all obstacles . . . crushed its internal enemies. [Of] the currents abroad which are not resigned to our frontiers ... I must say that if tomorrow these frontiers are in any way placed at stake...
Like Mr. Davis' last farce, Trie Nervous Wreck, the play employs Otto Kruger in the lead. Mr. Kruger and Victor Moore (back from vaudeville) illustrate the story of two ingenious crooks who invade a health farm of the wealthy. When they are through, the inmates are not so wealthy. The spectators have meanwhile enjoyed themselves boisterously...