Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors seldom mention the fact that an illness can be iatrogenic, i.e., caused by the doctor.* Yet many forms of sickness are created or made worse by the doctor's own emotional shortcomings. So says Psychiatrist Franklin Gessford Ebaugh of Denver in the Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society...
...daytime broadcasts, devoted to extolling . . . the so-called American way of life . . . divert the attention of American women from the acute social questions . . . It is strictly forbidden to mention by radio anything about the growing unemployment, the steady rise of the cost of living, about the hunger and misery, about the American slums. The very mention of the name 'worker' is not permitted...
What the handout does not mention is that the studio, in its ardor to be tried & true, has remade Coney Island, a 1943 Grable hit, in a Chicago setting and called it Wabash Avenue. It is still the story of two conniving, double-crossing gamblers (Victor Mature and Phil Harris) who wrangle over the ownership of gaslight-era cafés and the affections of Betty Grable. A different musical score mixes oldtime songs with new ones that are so reminiscent that it is hard to tell which is which. For that matter, the new picture is hardly distinguishable from...
Best drawn of the bunch is bored, bulky, candy-crazy Hostess Harries herself, whose fingers ache so much from signing checks that she abbreviates her signature to "Mgt Harries." She would like to divorce her Republican husband, who turns blood-red at the very mention of Eugene Debs, but "it is too much trouble," she says, "and besides, I need him to manage the servants...
While the Middle Eastern desk thus managed to impart to New York traffic a touch of Middle Eastern inefficiency, a recent Czech broadcast made it sound superhumanly efficient. "We must not forget to mention the buses, as they are called here for short . . . They all have one strange quality in common . . . There is only one person, a single man, who not only drives the bus but also takes the fares, makes change, opens and closes the doors . . . And yet he certainly does not run down any more pedestrians than the driver in Paris, London or Prague, who only drives...