Word: treating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With both guests Interviewer Wallace wore himself out beating at a straw man. In questioning oldtime Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, his baiting, inquisitorial manner was not only impertinent, but-worse -not pertinent. It is too late in the century to treat either Actress Swanson's merits as a performer or the Hollywood morals of her heyday as if they were burning issues. For all practical purposes, the Ku Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint...
...microscopic observation of the whole Chambers-Hiss case from Hiss' point-of-view, a point-of-view already well-known. Hiss tells the reader little about his intellectual background, especially his attitude toward radicalism, something that is crucial to the whole Case. One wonders why he does not treat the events before 1948 more freely; why we do not meet his friends of the thirties; and why we do not learn more about his political views. These are some of the questions that one hoped Hiss would answer in his book, but which, for reasons of his own, he declined...
...Dashing, Decisive." By late March, when Lord Salisbury resigned from the Cabinet in protest over the release of Archbishop Makarios, Macmillan could treat Salisbury's departure as an unfortunate but far from calamitous incident. That is what it proved...
...wise politico carefully adheres to a bit of advice given by George Bernard Shaw: 'Treat a friend as a person who may some day become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may some day become your friend...
...trouble in far too many cases of accidental poisoning, including those involving children, is that they are caused by proprietary preparations whose ingredients are not listed on the label. So even if a doctor is called at once, he may not know whether to treat the victim for acid or alkali, arsenic or strychnine poisoning. For such dilemmas, the book counsels: "As soon as vomiting occurs, or if it does not occur within a few minutes, give the patient several teaspoonfuls of 'universal antidote' "-a mixture of two parts activated charcoal, one part magnesium oxide and one part...