Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, the condemnation for treason of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, and his subsequent rehabilitation created an international scandal almost without precedent between 1904 and 1906. Anti-Semitism was the basis of the incredibly unjust treatment which Dreyfus received, but the trial stirred animosities which penetrated to the very core of French politics...
...Choumen, Bulgaria, a special electric treatment is applied by experts to the more tender membranes and organs of the body, in order to make the suspected man or woman talk. Several persons have died under this treatment...
Last week in Manhattan the Presbyterian Hospital staff announced some preliminary findings instructive to parents who think all diabetic children waste away. The report, based on observations of 34 young diabetics, showed that all except four were overweight or overgrown during the early stages of the disease. Proper insulin treatment and intelligent dieting throughout life are essential for them. Without insulin at least, affected children under ten rarely live more than two years. Persons between 10 and 20 years endure two to four years; between 20 and 30, four to six years; after 30, 5 to 15 years...
This, his third book of short stories, shows more diversity of subject and treatment than any previous work of his. To say this is not wholly to praise it. It is as if he had given us examples in "All the Sad Young Men" of the many types of short stories he has written since his last publication. "Step up," Fitzgerald seems to cry. "Something for everybody. We aim to please. Flappers and philosophers, you'll find something here you'll like if only you'll look far enough...
...trial. Furthermore the zeal of the attorney-general upon that occasion so far transcended the bounds of ordinary legal ethics as to bring sharp criticism from the journals of opinion. And although circumstantial evidence and the past record of Chapman point very strongly to his guilt, the treatment accorded to him by the Connecticut bench will always be viewed by unprejudiced observers as a sign of the "crime-wave" hysteria which has been undermining the ordinarily cautious procedure of our courts...