Word: injection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quincy, Mass., last week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...
There is, it is true, a very inane but very amusing ditty called "Leander" and this, aided by the antics of the juvenile loads, manages to inject a great deal of life into the second act. But not even "Leander" can quite compensate for some turgid emotionalizing on the part of the plump and mature prima donna who by dint of some rapid fire acrobatics falls swooning into the hero's arms just as the curtain is lowered on polite but not too frenzied applause. And the hero--well, the hero is handicapped by the royal trousers, which were built...
...inject into your "Newsmagazine" all the stuff that some of these amusement maniacs crave for. then you may keep your magazine to yourself, as far as I and a large number of like-minded are concerned...
...time to break the Red influence of Moscow! [This referred to a few recent speeches in the Chamber by Deputies with radical leanings.] The way to break the strangling grip of Red Communism is to inject new blood into the Cabinet. . . . We must have new Ministers of greater vigor...
...subscription is expiring but I shall not inject any financial adrenalin to keep it alive for, while I have found much of interest in each issue, I have put each one down with a bad taste in my mouth left by some short article, usually under MISCELLANY...