Word: itch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...check the avalanche, control the "verbal diarrhea," "mental exhibitionism," and "itch for advertising" of many medical writers, Sir Robert suggested: 1) "strict birth control in regard to new journals," strict "suppression" of many old ones; 2) tougher editing ("almost everything is too long"). Above all, he said, there should be no publication of "memorial lectures, such as this one. . . . There are surely better ways of remembering the dead than by boring the living...
...Napoleon's Clisson et Eugénie, written shortly before the 26-year-old artillery officer, shabby, suffering from itch and malaria-appreciated only by a few of his colleagues-made his name by smashing a royalist coup in Paris on Oct. 4, 1795. Until now this fragmentary (13-page) romance was known only to bibliophiles through a sketch published by a Polish scholar...
With such diverting thoughts, the Wolfs prisoners did not complain of the tropic heat that turned their filthy prison into a fetid Turkish bath, nor of their grim diet, nor of the dhobie itch and typhus brought aboard by Japanese prisoners, nor even of scurvy, which began to rot them on the voyage home, through a hurricane that left the Wolf leaking 40 tons of water an hour, through the ice-jammed Arctic and the dreaded North Sea blockade. Eventually they felt for Captain Nerger the respectful gratitude due a hero who had saved their lives...
...Treasury of American Prints was new, most were standard favorites: few of Critic Craven's prints were misprints. Big-shot artists such as Benton, Curry, Sloan and Wood were allotted five or six pages apiece, others from one to three. There were prints to suit everybody. People who itch and fidget when confronted with the self-conscious strainings of Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied a pasture pastoral...
...Swiss chemist, Frederick Norbert Wagner contracted travelers' itch "while my shirtwaist and trousers were still one piece." At 17 he shipped to the U. S. After clerking for a shipping line, he landed a job in Cook's London office. The World War found him skittering about as a British Intelligencer, an experience which brought him many a fruitful contact ("I know all the little back doors...