Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot is that it is completely ludicrous and yet no one involved in the picture, either actor or writer, seems to consider it anything but deadly serious. In their better efforts the Marx brothers, for example, were ensnared in some of the most tangled creations ever conjured up by ulcer-ridden, psychotic screen-writers; the movies were masterpieces nevertheless because no attempt was made to establishing continuity, plausibility, or any other of the rules of scripting...
...rule the country, the officers first set up a temporary military junta, then ordered an election for Congressmen who would choose a President. One candidate was a brooding, ulcer-afflicted lawyer named Dumarsais Estime, son of black peasant parents who lived in the voodoo-haunted pine forests near Mount La Selle. His strongly anti-mulatto position made him the idol of the blacks, and won him the election...
Jimmy and Romelle met in 1938 when he was an ulcer patient, she a nurse at the Mayo Clinic. Jimmy soon became Rommie's favorite patient, and when his first wife, Boston's Betsey Gushing Roosevelt (now Mrs. John Hay Whitney), divorced him, he married Romelle. After the war, they settled down in California and had three children. There were a few minor disturbances, such as the time Romelle went to the hospital after swallowing 15 seconal tablets, but, in general, life seemed to be tranquil indeed-for Roosevelts. A month ago Jimmy filed a separation suit against...
...share of the usual plague of rumors. Before he got the Republican nomination last year, the whisper (planted by his political enemies) went out that he had heart trouble. A slight touch of food poisoning last spring was quickly diagnosed by the dopesters as a stomach ulcer. When he bruised his elbow last August, the story soon got around that Ike was showing signs of falling apart...
...Echoing Grove, rate low I.Q.s. For they spend the better part of 20 years and 373 pages scrimmaging for a soggy, half-deflated male football named Rickie, and the rest trying to run with him toward the goal post of happiness. Since Rickie develops a debilitating ulcer and dies, neither of the girls makes it. But their tribulations are guaranteed to dampen any handkerchiefs that have dried out since the last episode of "John's Other Wife...