Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being in a position . . . [because of time and money] ... to continue the experiments," said Dr. Davidson, "I made a bold step, administering the filtrate to a human subject with carcinoma of the breast, who had previously been given a special high vitamin-content diet." To his delight, the cancer dried up, and in a year the woman was able to walk three or four miles every day. However, when she left her vitamin diet, the cancer soon returned and she died shortly afterward. Another patient, who suffered from cancerous growths on the side of his neck, was cured after...
...unknown couple, took them and two bottles of liquor to his Nob Hill penthouse. While he snoozed, his two guests frisked him of $3,800 and departed. His secretary explained that he had "gone into a tavern, as was his custom from time to time, in order to study human nature, mix with the lower elements, and see what is going on in the world...
...with the years some of his old friends developed a second nature which saddens him. Gertrude Stein, one of his first acquaintances in Europe, was once charming, filled with "a deep temperamental life-quality." Her "overweening ego" has now "made her life to my feeling ugly and her human relations and work ridiculous." Gertrude's brother Leo, once her idol, shared his disgust. Said he in a letter to Hapgood: "When Jesus said, 'Verily, verily,' the second verily added much to the expression. But if He had said, 'Verily, verily, verily, verily, verily, verily, verily, verily...
...Bernette happened to get a load of Peggy doing a rumba with Jackie, and from then on. See what I mean? Isn't she marvelous? She's really primitive."). The company so neatly evoked, is a company whose average intelligence rises only slightly above the threshold of human consciousness...
...ninety minutes these human cats scratch and claw each other, and while it is quite amusing throughout, the length of the film and the constant repetition of the one and only idea make the picture a trifle boresome. Go to see it, by all means, though, for if you don't you'll be missing one of the treats of a lifetime...