Word: hideously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will come as a gift . . . has defeated half the husbands in America. ... It is as responsible for the absurdity of keeping up with the Joneses as the bare instinct toward conformity. ... It long ago became associated with the notion that the bearing of children was such an unnatural and hideous ordeal that the mere act entitled women to respite from all other physical and social responsibility...
...Under the Rural plan, a withholding tax on next year's incomes (which almost everyone agrees is a good idea) would not bump into the hideous fact that most U.S. taxpayers would also be struggling to pay taxes on 1942 income...
WAAFs originally did all table-waiting, still do office-girl chores. Men and officers like the WAAFs, who, on the average, are small, rounded, unaffected and friendly and clump busily around in flat shoes, hideous grey cotton stockings and broad smiles. Personnel officers have noted that the morale is better on posts which have uniformed girls, but when the WAAFs were waiting on table the doughboys showed a tendency to call them Sugar, Honey, and wisecrack with them as with waitresses of the world, which is not considered proper treatment for lady troops. Middleaged, local domestics are now doing most...
...Said Dr. Snapper: "The parasitic disease which places its mark all over internal medicine in North China is kala-azar....It has to be considered in nearly every patient." This hideous malady, caused by tiny protozoa (Leishmania), produces an enormous spleen, anemia, and ulcers around the mouth, robs the body of its white blood cells, kills 95% of its victims who are not treated. Antimony is a specific for the disease, but of course few of its victims ever see a doctor until the disease is far advanced. Kala-azar is primarily an affliction of dogs, is passed to human...
...should rue that infamous day when an inconsidered and rash Act of the Corporation created the annex across the Common. Like Frankenstein's, this hideous monster now threatens to turn and devour its master and creator. Tell the man whose house is on fire to be calm, but urge not temperance on me while this grief blot still remains on the Harvard escutcheon! I demand the immediate suppression of the R----e Table on the grounds of indecency. R. Llewelyn Brill...