Word: label
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprised to see that the Crimson has fallen prey to the same headline propaganda which at first affixed the "red" label to the Spanish Government; later, by a process of wish-thinking, won the war several times for the fascists; and now so gleefully sounds the funeral dirge of the Republic. The facts should be understood. Catalonia itself is not yet conquered, while the MadridValencia sector remains entirely firm. In the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, all but a very narrow strip of seacoast was taken, only to be won completely back within two years...
Though Eliot himself earned the label of No. 1 tenant of the contemporary Ivory Tower, The Criterion also published the first poems of W. H. Auden. Stephen Spender, many another young radical. A Tory in politics,, an Anglo-Catholic in religion, Eliot held to his own beliefs in criticism. As an editor he acknowledged the talent, scholarship and imagination of writers whose social and political beliefs he sharply opposed...
Before the old Pure Food & Drugs Act was passed in 1906, the label on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound proclaimed the tonic "A Sure Cure for Prolapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb, and . . . All Weaknesses of the Generative Organs of Either Sex." Since 1906 the label has been modified several times to sidestep run-ins with Federal authorities...
...Journal, quoting Dr. Arthur Joseph Cramp, the A. M. A.'s patent-medicine expert, points out that the 1939 label makes no promises at all. Said he: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is 'Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted.' This statement is about as informative as it would be to say that 'For Those Who Like This Sort of Thing, This is the Sort of Thing That Those People Like...
...Irvine had been head of the luetic (syphilitic) clinic for five years, had pre pared thousands of injections. That morning, she ordered neoarsphenamine from the hospital's chemist, and when she received the yellow powder, did not bother to look at the label but merely mixed five-to-twelve-grain doses of the drug in dis tilled water...