Word: tonics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permit." After five hours solo, the best living pilot was scheduled this week to take his flight test for a transport license. Said Alford J. ("Al") Williams, famed onetime Navy stunt pilot: "Aviation needs Acosta badly. Seeing him take a ship off the ground is the best eye tonic I've had in years...
Romantic and imaginative to the last degree, Thames Williamson's book is a most pleasant thing with which to while away an afternoon, a tonic after the ghastly realism of many modern authors...
...smiling, self-confident, wispy-haired man of 45 in a blue serge suit. For the past two and a half years that man has solaced thousands of uncertain minds by broadcasting homely advice as THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE. His sponsors over the Columbia network: Wasey Products (Musterole, Kreml Hair Tonic, and a brace of nostrums known as Zemo and Haley's CTC, for stomach acidity). Last week it was the Voice of Experience who turned his first discussion of Art into neat plug for the Rembski show in general and his own portrait in particular...
...nation has yet been able to dissolve the difficulties of depression by a process of borrowing their way out. Our public debt of nearly 40 billion dollars--or one-fifth of the entire national wealth--should serve as a bracing tonic to even slow-witted treasury officials. Admittedly, the Administration is not entirely et blame as the recent survey report of the United States Conference of Mayors shows the distinct tendency of larging cities to pass their local relief burdens along to the federal government. Only five of the thirty-seven larger cities paid as much as one-third...
...human and to me a recent error is most embarrassing. On p. 24 in TIME, Jan. 21 I quote from the article captioned, "Beautiful Boxes"-"Before the contest Mr. Britt's mailbox was propped on a fence rail between tin signs advertising Coca-Cola and a tonic known as DR. PEPPER ('Good for Life...