Word: tonics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced after the 1936 campaign that active management of his machine would thenceforth rest in the hands of Nephew James Michael Pendergast, he has by no means relinquished his duties as policy maker. Day after last week's election, Democrat Pendergast, after exclaiming that "this is a better tonic than a carload of medicine," indicated that he might be a more stub born obstacle to Democrats Clark and Roosevelt than optimists might think. Having invited reporters into his office for one of his rare interviews, the old boss announced that he was going on the warpath and that...
...Bara or in clinging to our ideals and displaying a gentle-manly disdain for the mating call of the cow-Balinese in "Goona-Goona." But we soon hit the nadir; we liked our lady friends to wear their skirts around their necks and liked our alcohol distilled from hair tonic or drained from Sterno. Our few healthy moments were spent at "Sunny Side...
...attack on loose thinking parading as profundity, on hollow rhetoric offered as a guide to social action, on fakes, phonies, pomposities, stuffed shirts, pedants and wordmongers in general, The Tyranny of Words will to most readers make tonic good sense. But, as with most of Stuart Chase's writing, they are likely to be more impressed with his devastating diagnosis than with his cureall. Picturing present-day human communications as a telephone switchboard with all the wires crossed, Stuart Chase can only look hopefully toward a distant future when, through the rigorous application of semantics, the connection between minds...
...confused with the old patent medicine SSS ("Swift's Sure Specific") which used to be sold as a "blood purifier" (i.e., syphilis cure), and now is sold as a tonic...
...Daphnia a fine biological subject on which to test drugs, Professor Viehoever recently realized. For Professor Viehoever, Daphnia solved an important strychnine puzzle, he enthusiastically told the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Denver this week. This bitter, crystalline product of nux vomica is used as a tonic, stimulant and antidote in medicine. The effects of strychnine have long been unpredictable, even when the drug is manufactured strictly according to the U. S. Pharmacopeia. After diligent tests on rats, manufacturing druggists gave up hope of producing an utterly reliable strychnine. But Professor Viehoever tried many brands...