Word: vertigo
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...VERTIGO-Lynd Ward-Random House ($3). Woodcutter Lynd Ward's fourth and most straightforward picture-novel (others: Gods' Man, Mad Man's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage). Proletarian victims are a boy and girl from Manhattan's slums; Capitalist villain, an old man somewhat reminiscent of the late John D. Rockefeller...
Among other avoidable causes of deafness is high flying, according to Dr. Clarence H. Smith of Manhattan. In such cases dizziness and ringing sounds may accompany the deafness. Such flyers may be "attacked in the air by a paroxysm of disabling vertigo...
...Station WHN played it 28 times on one all-night broadcast in answer to 428 appeals. Station WBNX prepared to broadcast the song in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, Ukranian, Greek, Negro dialect, Irish brogue and pig-Latin. In dance halls, cinemansions. night clubs the nation reeled in vertigo...
...acidulous surveyor of the current diplomatic scene, it appears that heaven contains not one Aristophanes, but many, all of them more than slightly insane. On no other hypothesis can one contemplate the present without an unpleasant intellectual vertigo. As foreign office vies with foreign office in the publication of phantasmal solemnities which become increasingly void and without rational substance, one recalls with cheerful malice the Aristotelian dictum that "Man is a rational animal." In a wholly objective mood one is tempted to congratulate the rest of the animal kingdom on its fortunate escape...
...Meyer, Va., Bill Ocker was there as an armed guard. From a greasemonkey and bamboo polisher at Curtiss Flying School, Corporal Ocker rose to be a pilot, then an inventor. Flying upside down in the clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone was scoffed at, he built a little black box full of indicators which not only made blind flying simple but two years ago led the Army to require it of every flyer in the service. Congress appropriated $1,000 to buy up his patent. But last week...