Word: cesspool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, handsome Professor Stanley Cobb, Dr. Deutsch's superior in Harvard who referred to his assistant's remarkable success, told how he had treated a 21-year-old girl who suffered from extremely rapid breathing. When she was a year old she had fallen into a cesspool and, in addition to shock, had contracted pneumonia. When she grew up she went to work for an asthmatic woman, whose condition made the girl more susceptible to psychiatric asthma. After 15 treatments by hypnosis, during which Dr. Cobb suggested that she breathe slowly, the girl was cured...
...Grant's blind spot seems to have been singularly elastic, now large and now small, now enabling him to see through the most ingenious maneuvers of his enemies and now permitting him to adhere to men like Babcock, his confidential secretary, who "fished for gold in every stinking cesspool." That Grant's career was inconsistent, Dr. Hesseltine fully realizes. He seems less aware of its grotesqueness, its humor, and its influence on the course of democratic government. As a result the two brief chapters in The Education of Henry Adams remain the best summary of Grant's limitations. In himself...
...single person, who for talents and character commands the respect of the American people, who has not agreed with me that William Randolph Hearst has pandered to depraved tastes and has been an enemy of everything that is noblest and best in our American tradition. . . . There is not a cesspool of vice and crime which Hearst has not raked and exploited for money-making purposes. No person with intellectual honesty or moral integrity will touch him with a ten-foot pole for any purpose or to gain...
...which had paid for an investigation begun two years ago, a grand jury which had recommended an investigation of the prison's "gross mismanagement" last year. Plain, however, was the fact that it took an anti-Tammany administration to dig to the bottom of Welfare Island's cesspool of corruption...
...resent such a classification for the simple reason that my political opinions come from the teachings of Christ, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, rather than from any cesspool of radical fanaticism...