Word: spines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Journal spoke briefly relative to the American Association for Medico-Physical Research, a society organized in 1911 by the outstanding quack of the century, Albert Abrams. The organization was an outgrowth of the American Association for Spondylo-therapy, the term 'spondylo' referring to the spine and not to the good old American word 'spondulix.' In this peculiar organization are assembled some of the conspicuous exploiters of borderline medicine in this benighted land. For example, in 1925 the chairman of the section on radiology was Mr. George S. Foden, a practitioner of electronic medicine, who read...
...better. The locale is Vienna; time, post-War period; heroine, a daughter of the poor but honest; villain, a son of the rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever persuade him to drive a racing car? Answer: Only a heroine with an entrancing figure, like Cinemactress Barbara Worth, who appears...
...father, a distinguished surgeon of Puritan spine, wanted him to join the Navy. But his mother was musical and did water colors. Besides, he was brought up traveling abroad, where talented young pencils itch in the art galleries. So John Singer Sargent* became a painter...
Triple Crossed. With an unexpectedly loaded pistol, murder is done on the stage. The play halts. Policemen swarm in. The entire audience is under arrest and suspect. From this sanguine beginning the play proceeds through an ingenious labyrinth of surprises that would have been far more spine-chilling if The Spider (TIME, April 4) had not arrived first in Manhattan with much the same formula. A horde of unnamed actors are planted in the audience to be yanked from their seats, shoot from the balcony and participate generally in what looks like an impromptu actors' tong...
...young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish rake, who had often enough growled that Rennie had "neither chic nor chien" and who despised the chows as stupid foreigners, bristled at the news, but not in anger. A tremor passed down the lupine spine off big Boris, too, and that very afternoon he was so sentimental about Rennie's glossy brown coat and hang-down ears that Tessa, his Russian-temperamental fiancee, bit him on all four legs. Golden Toes had no idea what it was all about and disported himself as usual...