Word: sanatoriums
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...chief mystagogue of National Socialism, spends much of his time in private sanatoria. He dreams of a vast Germanic-pagan world in which Teutonic supermen live in ideological bliss. Rational Germans, few of whom possess the Nordic qualities he extols, call him "The mad prophet of Teutonic superiority." Sanatorium wardens tap their heads and whisper "Vogel im Kopf" (bats in the belfry). When Fellow Dreamer Adolf Hitler sees occasion, however, he often revives Comrade Rosenberg from his traumatic reveries and uses him for launching a trial balloon into the disturbed European ether or even for making a definite pronouncement...
...carbon does not - e.g., it gives off an animal smell when burned, swells up in jellylike masses when placed in alkali, forms colloidal (finely subdivided) solutions, turns white and fluffy when acted on by alkali plus chlorine. Therefore, concluded Dr. Georgine A. Moerke of Detroit's Municipal Tuberculosis Sanatorium, though some sort of lung irritation may be involved, the black lung deposit is not pure carbon breathed in from outside; it must be a substance produced by the body itself...
...inhabitants, jammed into some 230 narrow city blocks, Harlem is a virtual pesthole. The t.b. mortality rate in Harlem is ten times higher than the rate in more prosperous sections of New York City. It is not uncommon for Harlem doctors to be stricken. Confined to a tuberculosis sanatorium at present is brilliant, contentious Skull Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, former surgical director of Harlem Hospital, considered by many the outstanding Negro physician...
...some good entertainment for its perspiring spring production. Although the only person who really stopped the show last night was Councilman Sullivan who kept the audience waiting for an hour with his performance the day's happenings anent the Daily Blast, metropolitan newspaper, and the inmates in the Cretin Sanatorium mix well...
...theme of the production is that of the chorus girl who is fighting the efforts of her sugar-daddy's family to keep him confined to a sanatorium. In her battle to free him she is aided by two newspapermen. The musical is a satire on these subjects...