Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Allure (by Leigh Burton Wells; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). Marion (Edith Barrett) has been a sadist from her crib. In childhood she incurred the hatred of her entire family by pushing her sister Joan down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...
...sack within the hollow of the abdomen. The outside coat of the peritoneum resists germs, but its slippery, serous inner wall offers streptococci an ideal breeding place. The peritonitis which results is exceedingly hard to cure. A high percentage of peritonitis cases die, and many of the remainder suffer lifelong pain and debility from adhesions. Because of the difficulty of coping with this form of infection all surgeons cock hopeful ears toward any serious colleague who promises them a preventive of peritonitis...
...significant, it is a serious impediment to the cause of religion, struggling mightily to adapt itself to a changing world. To attempt to stimulate religious belief by cramming it down a man's throat is folly. The normal individual not only resents such a practice, but will have a lifelong prejudice against the food of which he partakes so grudgingly...
...Journal, Dr. Christian Jacobsen of Lübeck seems to have discovered that the Coley Fluid works because, like typhoid vaccine, it fortifies the entire body. Significant is the fact that few people who have cancer ever had typhoid, diphtheria or other infectious diseases which create a lifelong immunity...
...laws, to allow some price-fixing, some limitation of production. Mr. Richberg, a lifelong advocate of fair and free competition, tends to look askance on such measures. If his views are followed in reorganizing NRA, price-fixing may go by the boards, along with limitation of production, and suspension of the anti-trust laws. That, at least, is the direction of his inclinations and those of his partner, Madam Secretary Perkins...