Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patel is 74 and suffering from a weak heart. Last week he flew to breezy Bombay in a specially pressurized Dakota, to rest and recuperate. No one knows when & if he will return. In New Delhi, 25 leading pandits began an eleven-day yagna (sacred ritual prayer session) for Patel's early recovery. It was a prayer echoed by many an Indian for his country's future...
Cortisone is even scarcer than ACTH. Merck & Co., who make it, in 37 tedious steps, from the bile of butchered cattle, expect to produce little more than 1½ ounces a week for the rest of the year. Last week it was announced that henceforth cortisone will be doled out to suitable hospitals and research institutions through a committee of the National Academy of Sciences. And Merck has stopped giving it away: the price now is $60 for a 300-milligram vial ($5,670 an ounce...
...like Neutra, the public has nothing to lose but its chains. But to millions of Americans the chains the modern architect removes are still among the comforts of life: the overstuffed warmth of their living rooms; bedrooms big enough to serve as separate castles-and a refuge from the rest of the family; space to putter and store things in attics and cellars; walls that shut the outdoors out and make the inside cozy...
...Mothers with crying children should be treated with the utmost courtesy and care . . . Say: 'I am very sorry, Ma'am, but I must ask you to take the little one to the rest room...
...three members of this delightful family get into the movies, and each one on his own becomes a star. The rest of the film is composed of snitches and snatches from the family album of box-office hits-including some black & white satires of silent films in which Anne Baxter plays a frizzed girl of the '20s with a highly energetic twittering of legs and lashes...