Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Women's National Health Assn. had asked Dr. Louis Cassidy to talk at their recent meeting in Dublin, and such was his arraignment. He added: "The more you ponder, the more you come to the conclusion that many of the troubles of this country can be directly traced to two facts-there is too much tea and baker's bread consumed and vegetables are hardly thought...
Seizing tail, Mrs. Jackson tugged kitten from torn ear, killed kitten. Soon Dr. Frederick Adams, a Board of Health official, cut off kitten's head and sent it to the Provincial Laboratories at Toronto to be examined for rabies symptoms. Meanwhile prattling Jeanette Jackson received Pasteur treatment, did not seem to have rabies...
Idiosyncrasies. From an island in New York Harbor where the city's refuse is burnt, a smoky stench pervades the neighborhood. It bothers some people of the city. They sicken peculiarly because, health officials have just declared, the proteins in the smoke are poisonous to them. Other communities whose refuse is burned, unwittingly suffer in a like manner. Some of their people are bound to have an idiosyncrasy for the smoke, just as other people are sickened by strawberries, bananas or tomatoes, by plant pollens, by cocain or morphine. Just why, scientists have not yet learned. It is impossible...
Chicago's police chief, Michael ("Go Get 'Em Mike") Hughes, last week went to a hospital and had his tonsils removed. Then, recumbent, he resigned his post. Stated reason: health. The Hughes tonsils, however, had little to do with the Hughes resignation. The Hughes resignation had long been sought by citizens, including the loud Tribune, who had grown weary of Chicago's bawdy disorderliness under Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill the Builder") Thompson. The Hughes resignation seemed to indicate that an end to the whole Thompson phenomenon was in sight. Thompson and his men were beaten...
...thorough scanning in Australia, Planefancier Bruce declared with coldest logic: "I unhesitatingly reaffirm my great desire for an ever increasing flow of British people into Australia, but the flow must be conditioned upon its quality and upon our power of absorption. . . . Australia is not going to undermine her national health by lowering the standards of fitness of immigrants. . . ." Loyal citizens of the Empire put quickly out of mind this undignified squabble between two of His Majesty's Prime Ministers. Hopefully they turned to consider two additional and alternative measures designed to reduce unemployment which were proposed, last week...