Word: panacea
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According to him: "Whiskey stimulates the flow of gastric juices, it takes the edge off mental worries; it is a panacea which, if used in moderation, the human race cannot well get on without. It is far more efficacious than wine or beer; and, what's more, there's no use talking about wine or beer as far as this country is concerned. The Anglo-Saxon race is not a wine-drinking race and never will be. Legalize wine and beer and you will have a nation of staggering dyspeptics, all afflicted with cirrhosis of the liver. Legalize...
...each your special cause of anxiety. So, too, have I. The whole nation is beset with the difficulties incident to a world-wide depression. . . . Many have lost the savings of a lifetime, many are unemployed. . . . This is passing trial. . . . Never was the lure of the rosy path to every panacea or of easy ways to imagined security more tempting. For the energies of private initiative we are offered an alluring substitute in the specious claim that hired representatives of 100,000,000 people can do better than the people themselves in thinking and planning their daily life. . . . "We are still...
...believe that Dr. John Richard Brinkley can energize them with capric gonads that the man last week declared he would run again for State Governor next election.* He had a radio station at Milford, Kan., from which he advertised himself and his medical ideas, most notably his goat-gland panacea. Kansas doctors got his medical license revoked. (He is appealing for re-instate-ment.) The Government forced him to sell his radio station, bought last week by an insurance company. (He quickly bought another in Mexico, which he will operate by remote control at Milford...
...theory, which is once more attracting public attention, that the coaches of athletes in educational institutions should be appointed to the Faculty and put on the same basis with the members of the teaching staff; but the friends of that reform should not expect it to be a panacea for the ills which have developed in school and college athletics in this country. The coach who has hitherto spent his time on the side lines or in the launch will not change his spot, if he has any, when he takes a place in the company of those whose chief...
...many and beclouded issues of the preliminary arguments caused an inactivity which was prolonged with the coming of the House Plan. Annoyed by this inertia it was finally decided to apply the panacea and build the chapel. The confusion of the present opposition to the chapel is not so great that it can not still be organized into a strong phalanx and directed at the vital spot...