Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gonna drown if yon don't!" "Happy" yelled back: "It's a hell of a mess, boys, but I'm going to get you out and take care of you!" He then telephoned Washington, for not only troops but also doctors from the U. S. Public Health Service to help set up a prison camp on the State Insane Asylum Grounds. Tennessee. The Cumberland, one of the nation's most picturesque streams, went ugly in Middle Tennessee. At Clarksville (pop. 9.200) the river reached an alltime high of 62 ft.. 24 ft. above flood stage...
...Premier of China for eight months a decade ago and who last week at Geneva presided over the 96th session of the League Council as its president. ¶ Fresh from Madrid arrived the Council's special Medical Commission of two French doctors and one Polish to report "the health of the Spanish people is very satisfactory." The Commission said that at least 150,000 of Madrid's current population of about 1,500,000 have now been evacuated; urged that Madrid be at once permitted to buy 200 motor busses from France to evacuate another 225,000; rejoiced...
...Review's inside back cover, a standing feature was "Lady Houston's Cold Cure," for she, like America's Bernarr Macfadden, fancied herself as a health authority. A stern course of nostrums beloved by Britons (Gee's Cough Linctus, Langdale's Cinnamon, Byard's Oil), the cure was dedicated by its inventor to suffering mankind with this benediction: "If this remedy cures you, and I hope and believe it will, please report to me, and in payment let your fee be-just saying-God bless Lady Houston...
...Grace of God (by Leopold Atlas; Theatre Guild, producer) is a sombre chronicle, without beginning or end, about a poor family named Adamec. The father has been out of work three years. The mother scrubs and washes. The elder son ruins his health in a juvenile sweat shop and the younger shoots the sweat shop boss to get money to help his brother. As a social document But for the Grace of God has unquestionable authenticity. As a play it lacks dramaturgic heights and depths, although there are several memorable individual scenes. Example : the one in which the child workers...
...More Than a Secretary" shows Jean Arthur in a rather futile effort to appear plain-looking as secretary to George Brent, who, as a sort of streamlined Bernarr MacFadden, publishes a health magazine. Mr. Brent is kept in condition by his Brooklyn masseur, Lionel Stander, who reaches new heights as a comedian in this production...