Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood last fortnight the bloodhounds were baying at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's heels. Bounding from ice cake to ice cake, the harassed studio finally made the Ohio shore, stopped only long enough to drop its baby in the river...
Most articulate were the Negroes. Volleyed California's State Tax Administrator B. B. Bratton: "Louis B. Mayer is losing [that] adroit sense of . . . the fitness of things which marks the master showman. . . ." Thundered George A. Beavers, of the Golden State Life Insurance Co.: "It is sheer folly for Jews to entertain . . . the notion that they will escape the wrath which racial and religious bigotry let loose when tensions are increased by propaganda novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin." Boomed the Negro press: Uncle Tom was a socially significant work in its day, now it is just a reminder...
Last week, again after 42 days of hiccuping, Miss Mayer was getting weak because hiccups occurred so often that eating was almost impossible. This time she had not had an operation. Dr. Samuels, now a captain, was off somewhere with the Army, and she refused to be operated on by anybody else...
...this juncture, Miss Mayer went and, hiccuping quietly to herself, sat in the phone booth at the corner drugstore−she thought Dr. Samuels might be in New York City trying to get in touch with her. While she waited, she -read suggestions that would-be-helpful people had written to her: try catchup in beer, try holding your ears, try wishing on an inverted teacup. Said Miss Mayer: "Such superstition...
Captain Samuels turned up. He ended the hiccups just as he had before−by making an incision in Miss Mayer's chest and crushing the phrenic nerve which controls the diaphragm where all hiccups originate...