Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basically, Tobacco Road has outlived its usefulness. Years ago it might have painted a strong picture of the condition of backwoods farmers, which is definitely a national tragedy. But with a second rate cast and a misguided press agent, the show is prevented into legitimate burlesque. A sincere effort at saying something constructive, plus the denial of vulgarity merely for vulgarity's sake might again put Tobacco Road on the theatrical...
Married. Erskine Caldwell, 40, novelist (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre); and June Johnson, 20, student at the University of Arizona; he for the third time, she for the first; two days after he was divorced from Photographer Margaret Bourke-White; in Phoenix...
...Great Big Doorstep is good quality but very short weight. Its jokes are funny but few, its characters likable but often dull. Its counterpart is Tobacco Road, but The Great Big Doorstep is much less racy and much less real. More than a doorstep, it needs some kind of backlog...
Anesthetics, Old Style. Anesthesia has progressed from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...
...more than an electric refrigerator. Westinghouse already has made a two-cell unit selling for $300 that will clean the air in the average six-room home." Savings on cleaning and replacements are substantial; savings on health cannot be figured although the Precipitron catches pollen and bacteria. Not even tobacco smoke, which has the finest particles found in the air (16,000 side by side are no wider than a pinhead), escapes its electrical filter...