Word: kidneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Red Motley preferred to look at the brighter side. "We've cleaned house as far as advertisers are concerned," he boomed. "We've thrown the truss boys, kidney-pill artists and goiter-curers out of the sheet, and have replaced them with such Class A advertisers as General Foods, Arm & Hammer and Sunshine Biscuits." (Last week's Parade also had a lurid full-page ad for a book bargain, Bachelor's Quarters and One of Cleopatra's Nights...
...Albert Léon Guérard, 65, professor of literature, transplanted Frenchman, prolific critic and author (Art for Art's Sake, Preface to World Literature, France, a Short History, some 14 other volumes); and Thomas Addis, 64, Scotland-born authority on Bright's disease and other kidney ailments, winner of the Scottish Cullen Prize "for the greatest benefit done to practical medicine in the past four years...
...Harrison Williams, famed for her just-so hair, parties and clothes, lost her Micky, the much-photographed beige mongrel that had constantly kept her company in all the best places. Micky, whom she picked up in Capri in the '303, died in Manhattan at the age of twelve (kidney trouble...
...Wake) of that great master James Joyce. With Joyce's gigantic experiment in evidence, transition's purpose "to revolutionize language" seemed a possible one; dadaists and automatic writers took renewed courage; and young poets dipped more consciously into the unconscious, in which Uncle Alfred swam like a kidney...
...artiness, still has the best of his old wildness, plus new restraint, sadness and subtlety. He is used more centrally than before, and this is on the whole his finest performance. Groucho still carries the weight of the show and the woes of the world somewhere in the kidney region and walks, accordingly, with the famous sway-backed stoop. He still fires off his lines in the voice of a baying hound, with such irrefutable conviction that even the outrageously bad ones are funny. (Sample: "Your life is hanging by a thread." "So are my pants...