Word: treating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They treat me just like the other officers, only I have a better cabin...
Women Patients. In foyers, away from the mass meetings, the men discussed what to do with prudish or amorous women patients. The best conduct, by general approval, is to treat the woman impersonally, as if she were a mere head of beef. Let the prude bring in a companion; let the companion sit guard in an uncomfortable iron chair. Many women become amorous as they recline in the dentist's chair. The prudent dentist hurts such patients enough to make them forget their involuntary eroticism. All agreed that the practitioner who coos to female clients is a fool...
Lazy skeptics and whining peg-legs, when they read this fluent and elaborate narrative, shook their heads in complete disparagement. "The lying scamp," they murmured, "a front porch he could climb." The London Times, however, believed Pegleg Winthrop, published his story and an editorial, "... a brave man to treat disablement in the War as a spur, not a curb...
...Holy Father . . . who was the first to treat China not only on a footing of perfect equality but with true and special sympathy . . . is overjoyed and thanks the Almighty for the end of the civil...
...Regarding the Nationalists [see Strongest Man], we are ready to treat with them on a basis of equality. In fact, we are already conducting negotiations, but they are at a standstill for the present, due to the lack of unity within the national Government. If they seek to exclude us and make peace on their own terms naturally we will not have anything to do with them...