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Word: sanitoriums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beating, won only four out of 18 contested offices. From San Francisco the conservative Chronicle sardonically observed that in the city where EPIC was founded a year ago the voters were apparently tired of "magic hocus-pocus." But undaunted Upton Sinclair, emerging from several weeks' confinement in a sanitorium, declared: "The outcome of this election will not affect in the least our plans to spread the EPIC movement throughout the country." He promised that an EPIC convention in Los Angeles this week would prepare to put a national ticket in the field next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: After EPIC | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Newbold (Carole Lombard), seeking the 100% husband, has divorced one 60 per-center, is engaged to Bill Hanaway (Ricardo Cortez), a "sportsman," quoted about 70. Seeing Bill with Sue (Juliette Compton) in his arms, Penelope marks him down 30 points and elopes with a Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing in the sanitorium, is promoted to doctor's wife. The dialog is ridiculous but adequate for the plot. Individually the players deserve mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

Died. Anna Adams Gordon, 78, nine years world president of the W. C. T. U.; in a sanitorium at Castle, N. Y.; of a general breakdown. She served the Dry cause for 54 years, was 21 years secretary to Founder Frances Willard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 22, 1931 | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Died. Aleck Smith, 58, bluff oldtime golf professional, U. S. open champion in 1906 and 1910, adviser of Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones, Glenna Collett, Jerome ("Jerry") Travers, Mrs. Alexa Stirling Fraser; after a month's treatment in a private sanitorium; at Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 5, 1930 | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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