Word: treat
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Strangely enough. Dodgson believed that the London theater was the nearest thing to Heaven. Again and again he went to performances of what must have been his favorite play. Shakespeare's Henry VIII-"the greatest theatrical treat I ever . . . expect to have." He loved this play 1) because it showed the transitory nature of worldly greatness. 2) because it dramatized his yearning for divine bliss. Dodgson "almost held my breath to watch" when the deposed Queen Katharine of Aragon saw in a vision "a troop of angelic forms" hovering about her. "So could I fancy (if the thought...
...Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation has shown that America's health program is grossly inadequate. No Administration can boast about its health program unless it provides two things: aid to those now unable to afford proper medical care, and the extra doctors needed to treat them...
...Great Treat." "Roy has deserved a spanking since he was a child," says an old friend of the Cohn family, "but I doubt if he ever got one in his whole life." Roy's father, Albert Cohn, is a judge in the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court, a onetime protege of the late Boss Ed Flynn, and a power in the Democratic Party. In his teens, Roy would amaze his friends by putting in a spur-of-the-moment telephone call to the mayor's office and talking briefly to "Bill" (O'Dwyer...
...took for granted that his own filial piety would be duplicated in his children. Samuel's mother was also typical of her class and times, i.e., everything a mother of the 19503 tries not to be. It was mother Butler's custom to treat little Sam to "sofa talks"-long, cozy, heart-to-heart, during which he was made to "feel guilty for not being sufficiently grateful for all his parents had done for him." It was also mother Butler's habit to extract confidences from Sam and then pass them on to her formidable husband...
...outbreaks of food poisoning. "There are no real cases of ptomaine poisoning any more," said Heamen, "but in mass feeding there are times when some people become ill." This last remark does seen a bit of an understatement, at least to the medical staff at Stillman who have to treat large scale waves of "indigestion" several times a year on the average...