Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dastardly Crime at Midnight is made to order for the Mason treatment and after a slow start in a well-lit classroom, murder captures the sound-track. A doctor (Mason) tells his criminology class of a case of revenge, the camera reveals in flashbacks that Mason is his own subject, and that his lecture only anticipates his later actions. The original scheme, however, breaks down in practice and Mason's outlook gets blacker and blacker as complications arise between the killing and the burying. He does what he can to lose the body, but finally fails when he is persuaded...
...Cantab cold shoulder, long-established treatment for athletes invading Crimson territory, is on the way out at last...
...Ladle. "For a promised piece of bread, for an added ladle of soup, some poor souls became the valets of the Germans . . . swept out their mess halls, polished their boots, cleaned their bicycles. . . ." And then there were the prisoners who obeyed Vichy orders to collaborate, and were given preferential treatment. For them Ambrière reserves his deepest scorn, remembering how, when they crossed the Rhine on the return trip to France, "with languid fingers they removed the Fascist symbol they had been wearing since 1941 and pinned the cross of Lorraine in its place...
...ridden coffee town, was made the proving ground. DDT squads were recruited, and a fine, white-stone laboratory, office and warehouse were built. Some 100,000 children were examined and more than three million home visits were made. In time Maracay was declared malaria-free and the area of treatment was expanded...
...using the same old hands (only the piano player and the first horn were new). He had given Chicagoans the finest opera they had heard in years: a concert version of Elektra with Marjorie Lawrence, and Tristan und Isolde with Kirsten Flagstad. He had given the musicians some rough treatment at rehearsals -but no conductor was ever fired for that, so long as he produced good music...