Word: liverance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approach of a U. S. gangster famed nearly as much as "Scarface Al" Capone himself. At the height of the excitement, the S. S. Belgenland came into Plymouth, England. One of her passengers, registered as "John T. Nolan," said he was Diamond, told newshawks: "I have stomach and liver trouble. . . . The reason of my visit is to go to Vichy and take the cure. ... I only wanted to stage a fadeout. I don't want to return to New York. ... I ain't got no house in Brooklyn and I ain't got a chauffeur. The chauffeur...
...electrical brain waves. Although for 50 years similar experiments have been performed on animals, this was the first time a man had been subjected to such difficult research. From such experiments Dr. George Washington Crile of Cleveland developed his bipolar theory: the brain is the positive pole, the liver the negative pole of the body (TIME...
Research, Propaganda. As a separate part of his Bureau, Chief Woodcock announced the formation of a Division of Research & Public Instruction, which will compile statistics on arrests for drunkenness, deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, importation & exportation of hops, production of corn sugar, etc., etc. and announce its findings to the public. "I have an opening in this division for some first-class people," said...
...Alva Edison at his home in West Orange, N. J. was the recipient of the Rotary International Service Medal "in appreciation of a life of service to science, the arts, and humanity." While newsmen, photographers, waited after the ceremony he told a story: a man who suffered from a liver complaint went to Los Angeles for cure, recovered, started a sanitarium of his own. "Eighteen years afterward, the man died," declared Inventor Edison, "but before they could bury him his liver had got so strong they had to kill it with a club...
...Lambs' difficulty. Immediate cause of financial embarrassment was the penury of actor members who, pinched by unsuccessful seasons, could not pay their house charges. Shepherd Royle jovially diagnosed the present condition of show business as similar to the plight of a legendary unfortunate who was "shot in the liver, lights, vitals and lower part of the saloon." The audible cinema he considered a contributory ailment...