Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Future. No lover of anticlimax, no man to misread the public mind twice, Alfred Emanuel Smith announced he was through with politics, for good. Friends offered mansions for him to rest in. Until January 1 he has his gubernatorial mansion at Albany. Said a colyumist, referring with admiration to the Smith campaign: "I'd rather be Smith than President...
There Menelaus woke, distracted still. Helen was pure, but just a shadow Helen. The real one he had killed, just as he killed Paris, just as he would kill anyone who dared rest his eyes on her. Death, Helen decided, was better than a half-mad Menelaus who thought her just a shadow creature, and perhaps death would not come so long as she could smile. Packed away there was another potion that might restore him. Aithra warned her but she took no notice, clapped for wine and balsam and herself brewed the cup of quietude that proved...
Doctors hope to keep pneumonia low this year. Their best advice is to guard against common colds. If colds develop, the patient should rest in bed and eat nourishing foods. If pneumonia develops, alert doctors this year have a new serum to use. Old ones required three injections to cure. The new one, announced last week by Dr. William Hallock Park of New York City's health department, the man who has done so much bacteriological work to prevent disease, requires but two injections. Its supply so far is scant. Not until December will there be enough...
...wretched Recea switchman, who should have sidetracked the local-express to let the Orient pass, promptly took to the woods. So did the rest of the Recea station crew, after locking up their station. Seemingly they thought that when the hand of the Rumanian Justice fell it would be merciless, perhaps indiscriminate...
...promised to reveal, this week, the rest, of the famous Forecast presidential prognostication, but I must break that promise, as I have often broken more important ones. But the truth is that a non-partisan body, composed of leaders of both parties, has asked me to hold off. Word came from rural communities in the West, where the name of Forecast is spoken in hushed and reverent tones, that the populace was a waiting my prediction before going to the polls...