Word: treating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was observed to treat a certain Correspondent Carlisle MacDonald with less coldness than anyone else who covered him in Paris. Therefore Manhattan's Times sent suave Scot MacDonald from France to the U. S. on the same warboat that carried the Colonel home. Last week Mr. MacDonald, long since back in Paris, was strolling down the Rue de la Paix when the biggest French story of the week broke before his eyes...
People who have been solicited for money to support, treat and cure lepers last week received a worthwhile shock. Few have seen lepers. They have read about lepers in the Bible and medieval histories; they have heard doctors and missionaries tell of the silvery horror. But it has been easy to believe that science was curing leprosy, that money to fight the disease was not badly needed...
...others, he injected chaulmoogra oil into the veins of lepers. The oil caused the lepers terrific pain. Often they fought against its use. Yet it seemed to stop the rodent, rotting, eating course of the disease. Chaulmoogra oil and its esters are the only medicines doctors know to treat leprosy. It is not a cure...
Therefore, claimed Doctor Garabedian, when the mother-in-law fell ill two years ago, Ras Taffari wanted him to treat her, after Ras Taffari's own fashion. But "Doctor Garabedian, man of scruples, would not. Consequently, Ras Taffari called in a rival of Doctor Garabedian's, a sinister Greek. Soon the mother-in-law died...
...declines to talk for publication beyond the statement, 'That was no way to treat a lady,' and 'Thank heaven, the jug wasn't broken...