Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given setting, complicated by the influences and forces that their foreign environment brings to bear on them. Mr. Cozzens uses Cuba much as Kipling used Simla. And as in Kipling, the writing is character portraiture, rather than development. Consequently the people are painted in rather brighter colors than strict realism allows, with its penchant for neutrals. The effects must be created quickly--partly because so many, almost too many, characters are introduced--and the characterization is more rapid, more intense, more dramatic than in the works of, say Sterne or Madge Kennedy. It is, moreover, very good on the whole...
...late great, hard Frank Andrew Munsey (1854-1925), amalgamator of newspapers, had a strict rule in all his editorial offices that there should be NO SMOKING. This caused many reporters to sneak out of sight...
Ringworm is caught at swimming pools, golf clubs, athletic clubs-wherever people use common dressing rooms. Wearing can vas slippers at such places will help prevent infection, as will the strict use of personal soaps and towels. Writes Surgeon General Gumming: "Probably the general tendency of the American public to spend a certain amount of time in hotels is largely responsible for the increase of this disease. There is no good proof that water in swimming pools is in any way responsible...
Last week the salvage firm of diving Italians kept 60% of their diamond haul, returned 40% to the original Belgian owners. That was right, that was legal, and in strict accord with the Italo-Belgian contract...
...Strict enforcement of the city ordinance (against unmuzzled dogs running at large) for at least 90 days should be effective. Valuable dogs may be protected to some degree by vaccination against the bite of their rabid fellows . . . it is inconceivable that the prevalence of rabies in Chicago shall be allowed to go on from bad to worse until scores of children and hundreds of valuable dogs have been sacrificed...