Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protested Anslinger, many cases of Demerol addiction have been recorded. He forecast "a wave of Demerol addiction" if doctors and the public swallow De Kruif's "reckless and dangerous statements." First found in Germany in 1939, Demerol has been synthesized in the U.S. since 1941, was placed under federal narcotics control...
First Watch exasperatingly keeps promising that McFee will soon swallow the anchor and embark on his great American adventure. Yet just as he finally does sail for the States (where he wrote most of his 23 books, and where he is still living and working, at 66, as a book reviewer for the New York Sun), McFee ends his story. When he daydreams of gimbal lamps and fiddley gratings, he illustrates his abiding fault: maundering. But when he describes a desperate journey on a sinking ship, he exemplifies his talent for hard factuality in a handsome style...
...just too much to swallow that the Chiang Kai-sheks, whom you and everybody lauded to the skies, have suddenly become inefficient and evil. I hope you won't soon be imploring us to fight China. That seems to be the way we do it nowadays. I suppose now Japan is suddenly getting good again. Finland was once just tops in American eyes, now in the depths. Is Argentina now grand again, or are we still supposed to hate her? I just can't keep track of whom we are supposed to hate...
Gulp. In Rockville, Conn., Frank Swallow was named head of the Logan Drinking Cup Division, U.S. Envelope...
...year for some random reportage. He has another bedside chat with the President (Lanny edits one of F.D.R.'s speeches, in which he invents and inserts the phrase "arsenal of democracy"), and is off to see Adolf Hitler chew a rug. Göring smuggle a swallow of dope, and "Rudi" Hess resolve to fly to England...