Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news: that he cures acute gonorrhea in four days with 40? worth of Prontylin. Prontylin is a new drug which cures many cases of blood poisoning (TIME, Dec. 28). Learning of Dr. Colston's forthcoming report and keenly aware of the nation's lively interest in the social disease which infects 2,000,000 U. S. men and women a year (twice as many as syphilis does), which is responsible for an inestimaable amount of sterility, which necessitates dropping a 2% solution of silver nitrate in the eyes of every newborn child to insure against blindness, which...
...democracies, to consolidate their national thinking and their honor against the spread of autarchy. He does not call for war: "The liberal states could fight, might win. But could their liberalism survive the wartime curbs that would be prerequisite to victory and the new waves of economic deterioration and social disorder that afterwards would overtake the victor along with the vanquished? Hardly. . . . The call is not for an attack on the dictators but for a general mobilization against all their conceptions and practices...
...nice nestegg in a London bank, stood in well with his party's national committee, had built up good-will by planting the right people in every bureau and department in the Capital. A widower for many years, he let friendly rich widows assist with the social side of his career. At home he was pampered by his beautiful 27-year-old daughter Darnell, who traveled with the "sad young men in the foreign service—touched a little by reading Proust," slept with a handsome swimming instructor who "smelt like a spaniel that's just had a bath...
...scene is Richmond, second capital of the Confederacy; from Secession Night to Appomattox. In 1861 Richmond was gay, prosperous, confident, the established capital of an established civilization. Between Mildred Wade, daughter of an aristocrat, and Brose Kirby, a clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched off to war as a private in the soon-to-be-famed First Virginia Regiment, Mildred sought him out in the dusty camp just to tell him that...
When McClellan invaded the Peninsula, fought his way almost to the outskirts of Richmond, social abysses began to close and the sacred soil of Virginia cracked open in other places. Before the terrible Seven Days' Battle was over, the abyss between Mildred and Brose was almost closed with corpses in grey. By the time McClellan drew off his battered army and Lee invaded Maryland, Mildred had painfully confessed to Brose that she loved...