Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justified his perhaps little bearing on the desirability of the Gadfly. But its publication creates an issue, and in the case for the more radical side there are several interesting points which are open to question. The first of the two principal dries that are struck in the treatment is the impossibility of expecting such a frail and fallible institution as a committee of the faculty to apply a rule which in itself may be inoffensive. This, for example, worries Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard who fears that he University is going to lose its emprotorgued, awkward, loose-Haibed, ill-groomed...
...national fondness for superlatives finds annual expression in the Pulitzer prizes. The process is simple: after a judicial consideration of the mass of material turned out by the printing presses of the country, the committee announces its decisions, which thereupon receive first page treatment. In the scientific world, the awards often reflect merit. In the literary and dramatic domain where justice is a matter of opinion, much critical ink is used in denouncing the decisions...
...husband of famed actress Lena Ash well, and accoucheur to royalty. Sir Henry Simpson had previously allowed it to become noised about that the Duchess would not be delivered for another fortnight. When he stated last week, that the royal birth was imminent, and that "a certain form of treatment"* had been resorted to after, consultation with other physicians, excitement and anxiety were rife among Britons...
Gilbert and Sullivan were such an amazingly clever couple that most of the recent producers giving their works have spent a good deal of money on costumes and left the rest to the words and music. In reality the operas need the deft and specialized treatment demanded by any unique type of entertainment. Probably most producers, preoccupied with sex appeal and the Charleston, do not understand Gilbert and Sullivan. It has remained for Winthrop Ames to reveal them so perfectly that everyone may understand and may enjoy...
...possessed a large squirt gun which he delighted to fill with bilge water in the dead of night. Thus armed he stole upon sleeping members of his crew, inserted the tip of the gun in an ear, pressed the plunger. Two private secretaries left him after suffering this treatment. Mr. Brown crept upon a third secretary at night, clipped off his mustache without waking him, squirted...