Word: tuberculars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superb assistance. Producer Herbert J. Motley, Jr., must have coughed up a tubercular amount of cash to pay for Lewis H. Smith's dazzlingly varied, fresh, and luxurious costumes. The colorful, lively stage settings of Marjorie Ingalls and William S. Carter turned the vast desert of the Loeb main stage into the intimate oasis G&S fans remember the Agassiz stage to have been. The Adams House Lighting Society, in addition to ordinary competence, supplied some extra effects which I will not spoil by recounting here...
...barber chair, a lever is pulled, and chug, chug, chug--the infernal contraption hauls the fellow off to be chopped up for the filling of veal pies. Sweeney's activities affect a wide circle of people including a hypocritical parson, an asylum warden, a judge, various military gentlemen, a tubercular heroine, and other hangers...
...Constantino owned the biggest preserve and canning factory in Sao Paulo. Several of Constantino's customers who prayed to Santa Izildinha reported a series of "miracles": a man run over by a car was uninjured because his wife invoked Izildinha's name; a tubercular was cured after doctors had given up hope; a chronically sick child suddenly bloomed with health. In 1944 Constantino's saintly connections so impressed the townfolk of Monte Alto, 250 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, that they gave him land for a big food-processing plant. In a carnival of publicity, Constantino turned...
...private session with Secretary Rusk, he picks up the phone and calls me. He says, 'Hello, Frank, this is Jack. Say, how's that road north of Stanton coming? Are the farmers really concerned about the hole? And how about those empty beds in the tubercular hospital at Kearney-what are we going to do about them...
...love for the weakness of the weak. In their testimony, the town fathers incriminate themselves: the rich doctor objects that Marcy is taking money from the purses of honest physicians with her free toxin-antitoxin shots; the minister pompously complains of Marcy's interfering when she tells of tubercular prisoners in the penitentiary. The voices of the poor exalt Marcy: it is recalled that she went more than 20 miles through waist-deep snow to tend the dying child of a miner when no doctor would get out of bed to do the job, that she was kind...