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...cured by a bumblebee. There was a time when nobody believed Oliver, but when Weil heard the story, he didn't doubt it for a minute. At the time of his cure, Oliver was 64 years old and had been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis since he was in his 30s. His hands were so swollen that he had given up trying to find gloves to fit them. His shoes were two sizes larger than they used to be and seemed to be growing each year. He took up to a dozen different pain relievers every day, though few actually relieved...
...partners a stunt pilot (Daniel McDonald) but is secretly married to the marathon's slimy emcee (Gregory Harrison). The mix of nostalgia, cynicism and period artifice, however, keeps us at arm's length from the material (beware of any show in which one character calls another "Flyboy"). The ersatz-'30s numbers are pleasant but forgettable, although Debra Monk, as a marathon veteran, puts across a saucy showstopper, Everybody's Girl. Mostly, however, Steel Pier just seems tinny...
Three men, who according to party members were in their 30s and were not affiliated with Harvard, attempted to enter the party just before...
...Roosevelt's Attorney General), and once initial suspicions were allayed that it would turn into some big, secretive, czarist police force, it did precisely that. The bureau quickly built its empire of white men in white shirts, chasing anarchists and Bolsheviks in the '20s, gangsters and bootleggers in the '30s, fascists in the '40s, communists in the '50s and civil-rights leaders and antiwar protesters in the '60s. The enemies, always changing, are changing still, and the agency that confronts them now faces problems that would bedevil any FBI director trying to drag the agency into the modern age--which...
Cohen said she planned to offer American history courses including seminars and focused surveys on the '20s, '30s and the New Deal...