Word: agent
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...opposing school of thought holds that pellagra is due to an infectious agent which is allowed to grow in the body, due to its rundown condition. Both sides arrive at the same conclusion: proper diet is a preventive and cure...
Poet Hoffenstein, still in his early 30's, went from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to Manhattan in 1922, was dramatic critic on the Sun, columnist on the Herald-Tribune, press agent for Producer Al Woods. Now poetry supports him. Mild-miened, reg-ular-featured, carapace-bespectacled, Poet Hoffenstein thinks nothing ever happens to him, thinks his experience is common, that others will not admit it. Other books: Life Sings a Song, Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing...
Stage Manager. To marshal Dry witnesses and their testimony was the work of Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, chairman of the Association of Organizations in Support of the Eighteenth Amendment, Washington agent (lobbyist) for the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Able, smiling, determined, she stage-managed the Dry testimony from the wings of the committee room, sent her witnesses out to tell their stories, did not take the stage herself...
...Plan. ... I am even now willing to accept the Young Plan in the Young spirit. What is now before the Reichstag I call the Hague Protocol. Sanctions [the right of the Creditor Powers to punish Germany if she defaults] have been introduced again. . . . Germany won't be a free agent after all, although Young . . . wanted this. Sanctions have nothing in common with the Young Plan as conceived in Paris...
...many heads. "The God of the Episcopalians is an elderly British peer, courtly in manner, somewhat beefy, and, in New York, vaguely Jewish. The God of the Mormons shaves his upper lip, and believes in large families and a protective tariff. The God of the Methodists is an agent pro-vacateur, forever fingering his pad of blank warrants. The God of the Baptists is amphibious, and, in some of his aspects, almost identical with the Neptune of the Greeks...