Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certain showman and think that, considering all the circumstances, it was very well applied." There was no great outcry from churchmen and no noticeable explosion from the public, all of which caused the anti-New Dealing New York Sun's George Sokolsky to complain virtuously: "The reaction to the President's language is indecent, even more indecent than the remark itself...
...Reaction of the stock market to the Presidential election...
Several other deaths due to "serum sickness" or delayed reaction to penicillin have been reported; the patients died five to eleven days later. But this was the first death reported due to "anaphylactic shock," i.e., immediate allergic reaction. There may have been others. Dr. Waldbott warns: "Not everybody would write up deaths in their own practice; and not everyone would recognize such a death as due to anaphylactic shock." His advice to physicians: check carefully to make sure the patient has not been sensitized to penicillin; if he has been, take extra care not to inject it into a vein...
...forehead -the Duchess of Windsor ("slopes exactly right"); ears-Margaret Truman ("an exact replica of those found in Greek sculpture"); eyes-Princess Margaret ("softness is the test"); nose-Madame Chiang Kai-shek ("the less obtrusive the more perfect"); cheekbones-Jane Russell; lips-Rita Hayworth ("the test lies in the reaction of the opposite sex"); thighs -Esther Williams ("the anomalous combination of firmness and softness"); legs -Linda Darnell ("flawless symmetry...
...Oenslager's single set, the dismal orderly room, is so startlingly realistic that anyone who had experiences roughly like those shown in the play can't help remembering that they weren't so very funny when they really happened. Nevertheless, the final test of a comedy is the audience reaction. At the Wilbur, they were rolling in the aisles...