Word: tonics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plus room and board, must stay for 31 days. His whiskey ration is gradually tapered off: eight ounces the first day, six ounces the second, four ounces the third, none from then on. Four times a day he gets gold chloride injections; every two hours he takes a tonic. At the end of the course, Keeley Drs. Robert Estill Maupin, Bert Trippeer and Andrew Jackson McGee look him over, ask him if he still feels the "irresistible craving of nerve cells for alcohol." Usually he says no. How many of the 400,000 Keeley graduates have stayed cured, Director Oughton...
...Still a war of nerves . . . therefore a proper precaution to fortify the nervous system with Sanatogen Nerve Tonic Food...
...begin with it should be pointed out that even Harvard indifference will melt before the eye-filling chorines and showgirls. To a reviewer accustomed to nothing more startling than Radcliffe citizens and Vincent Club members the girls were indeed an ocular tonic. Tall and willowy, each was a tribute to Mr. Brown's excellent taste in such matters...
...first and second parts of the report immediately sound the tonic note an clarion tones. The Committee has made a conscious effort to reduce the uncertainty, insecurity, and bewilderment which nag the shorten the period of probation before a permanent appointments. Such also is its formulation of definite and positive criteria for advancement. The young teacher will now know what to aim for, what to stress; and he need no longer cower so abjectly before the dread god Publication. Together these recommendations should effectively dull the Demolition sword suspended over the lower academic ranks...
...were the Hartley landscapes. But his figures - first he has painted in years-included several strong studies of Nova Scotia fishermen and an extraordinary memory portrait of the late Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, "as seen at night at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 15th Street" (see cut). Its tonic virtue: that it brought to life without sentiment an imaginative artist whose seclusion and eccentricity delayed until after death his fame as one of the great 19th-Century U. S. painters...